摘要:
An automatic focus adjustment camera in which a photo-taking lens is step-driven to one of a plurality of set positions, depending upon measurement of object distance, employs aperture adjustment or adjustment of object distance to improve resolution of images. The total focusing distance range of the photo-taking lens is divided into successive object distance ranges, and the center of each object distance range corresponds to one of the set positions of the photo-taking lens. The amount of adjustment to improve resolution is determined by the extent to which the measured object distance differs from the center of the object distance range that includes the measured object distance. In a portrait photography mode the aperture diameter is made large enough to ensure blurring of background while obtaining a sharp object image.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for controlling an operation of a camera is so structured that when a first process for performing a pre-focusing process and the like and a third process for performing light-metering process, exposure control process and the like after auto-focus control are executed under the program control of a microcomputer, and a second process for performing the auto-focus control is executed between the first and third processes, the operation of the microcomputer is interrupted by cutting off power supply thereto or applying an operation stop signal to a reset terminal thereof after the first process, and the second process is then executed. After second process is completed, the microcomputer is restarted and, after it discriminates the completion of the second process, the third process is executed. In this way, since the first and third processes based on the program control are executed in a time-serial manner, they are no longer adversely influenced by the second process. Furthermore, when the microcomputer is restarted, the third process is executed after it discriminates the completion of the second process. Therefore, even if the program control is interrupted, the computer program control sequence can be executed.
摘要:
A flash device for photography includes a DC/DC converter for boosting a DC power source voltage and applying a voltage to a main capacitor for supplying an energy for driving a flashlight tube. The converter has control means operative in response to the trigger operation by a start operating switch to detect any reduction in the charging current of the main capacitor and stop said operation. The flash device is provided with another switch means for enabling the operation of the converter independently of the start operating switch. Said another switch means is operative to operate the converter until the charging voltage of the main capacitor reaches a sufficient value to drive the flashlight tube.
摘要:
An image recording apparatus records image files on a recording medium. The image recording apparatus automatically selects disused files and automatically deletes them at the appropriate timing. A storage device acquires an image file from, e.g., an imaging component or an external terminal and records the image file together with time information on a recording medium. A controller monitors the recording area of the recording medium and automatically deletes image files for which the time information is old in accordance with the monitored usage status of the recording area.
摘要:
An information magnetic recording apparatus according to the present invention has: a magnetic recording head that magnetically records on a film; a magnetic recording signal conversion device that converts information to a magnetic recording signal; a head driving circuit that drives the magnetic recording head based on the magnetic recording signal that is outputted from the magnetic recording signal conversion device; and a temperature detection circuit that detects a temperature around the head driving circuit and determines whether or not the temperature is abnormal. And the magnetic recording signal conversion device stops outputting the magnetic recording signal if the temperature detection circuit detects that the temperature is abnormal.
摘要:
An information processing device configured to conserve power consumption of the battery. The device uses a recording medium with a magnetic recording unit. A power source supplies power to at least one assembly, which retrieves and/or records information on the recording medium. The power is supplied to retrieve and/or record information only when the respective assembly is in operation. The device can be a camera using film as the magnetic recording medium.
摘要:
A camera comprises a photographic information output circuit section, a CPU, a PPM signal conversion circuit section, a drive section for a plurality of magnetic heads, and a film feeding section. The CPU converts several parallel data items which are output from the photographic information output circuit section into a single serial data item and outputs it to the PPM signal conversion circuit section provided separately from the CPU. The PPM signal conversion circuit section converts this single serial data item into several PPM signals, and then supplies the PPM signals to the magnetic head drive section.
摘要:
The present invention is applicable to a camera capable of reading in film specific information recorded by means of a bar code. This film specific information is inscribed upon a display portion which rotates together with the forwarding of a film stored within a cartridge. The camera includes: a photointerruptor which optically reads the bar code on the bar code display portion as the bar code display portion rotates together with the forwarding of the film, and which outputs as an electrical signal of the result thus read; a comparator which compares the output signal from the photointerruptor with a threshold level; a calculation device for calculating a standard value for setting the threshold level based upon the output signal from the photointerruptor; a reference value control device which controls the threshold level according to the standard value; and a determination device which determines the film specific information based upon the output of the comparator.
摘要:
A perforation detector of a camera comprises a light emitting unit for emitting light to a film, a photo-sensor for sensing reflected light from the film to produce a signal representing a sensed light intensity, the light intensity of the reflected light varying with presence or absence of a perforation at a reflection area of the film, a detection unit for comparing the signal from the photo-sensor with a predetermined value to detect a perforation of the film, and a control unit for controlling the light intensity of the light emitting unit in accordance with the signal from the photo-sensor.
摘要:
Information recording device according to the invention is of the type which records information in an information recording area of each image frame on a film, as the film is advanced by film feeding mechanism. The device comprises an information recording head positioned downstream, with respect to the film feeding direction, of the front end of the information recording area of the image frame opposed to an exposure aperture of the camera; a timer for measuring the time elapsed after the start of film feeding by the film feeding mechanism; and a controller for causing the information recording head to start the information recording in the information recording area of the film when the timer measures a time required, after the start of film feeding, for the front end of the information recording area to reach the information recording head.