[NTLK] Tibet

[Daniel Padilla]

Hello Noah.
 It probably needs a TTL to RS232 conversion.  It was very common at the
time

Kind regards
Daniel

El vie, 19 dic 2025, 14:26, Noah Leon <moosefuel at gmail.com> escribió:

> I acquired a Nikon Coolpix 950 which seems to be a really great vintage
> camera, its pics are good enough quality to be considered “nice” instead of
> “novelty” but it’s old enough that it *should* be able to talk to my Newton
> running Tibet.
>
> Formerly I’ve got this working with my Epson digital camera.
>
> The thing is, the CoolPix came “as-is” without a serial cable. The camera
> end uses a 2.5mm stereo jack (as far as I can tell) on one end, and an
> RS232 serial plug on the other. I bought a 2.5mm stereo jack and a
> mini-din-8 plug and wired them together to connect to my Newt, matching the
> TxD, RxD and GND pins, and the camera seems to start “thinking” when I try
> to download photos in Tibet, the little animation on the top LCD screen
> marches along for a moment, but then Tibet complains it had a
> communications error.
>
> I suspect I’m missing something in regards to wiring up the serial
> connection. Any ideas?
>
> The ultimate goal is to go from Camera ———> email with my photos, and then
> maybe even to Instagram. Right now still stuck on step 1.
>
> noah
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