Are any compact cameras available with USB-C, and when was the feature likely to appear?
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I’d like to avoid buying devices that still use micro-USB. Are there any compact or small cameras with a USB-C connector for data transfer or charging? If not, how quickly do camera makers typically adopt newer connector standards compared with phones and other consumer electronics?
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Yes, but at the moment they're all phones.
The standard was finalised in 2014, but we only started to see it in use in phones last year, and it's still not ubiquitous. Camera manufacturers have a slower release cycle than phones (where the pace of development is very aggressive).
Its likely to appear in many more small devices after it becomes commonplace in phones, but for now it's likely that camera manufacturers will play it safe.
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At the time of the discussion, USB-C was still very new in cameras. The only broadly noted example mentioned was the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, but that is not a compact point-and-shoot and was a higher-end model.
The general consensus was that camera makers adopt new connector standards more slowly than phone makers. USB-C had only recently started appearing in phones, and it was not yet common there either, so cameras were expected to lag further behind. In practice, manufacturers often wait until a standard is widespread and low-risk before adding it to cameras, especially in smaller consumer models.
So the short answer is: essentially no compact cameras were commonly available with USB-C yet, with only a few newer or higher-end exceptions beginning to appear. If USB-C was a must-have, the best expectation was to wait for later model generations as the connector became more common across electronics.
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