摘要:
Variable focus camera includes primary and secondary lens systems, in which only the primary lens system is used for wide angle shots while the combination of the primary with the secondary lens system is used for telephoto shots.The variable focus camera can exactly and positively control the focus change region, the automatic focusing region and other regions.
摘要:
In an objective lens assembly for an optical instrument comprising inner and outer tube members with outer and inner engaged helicoidal screws, respectively, the normal trapezoidal-section main ridge of the helicoidal screw of the outer tube member is modified to provide one or more wall surfaces that reflect stray light from the object side of the objective lens assembly to prevent such light from reaching the image side of the assembly. The wall surface or surfaces are provided by one or more sub-ridges or grooves at the top of the trapezoidal-section main ridge. Bottom portions between successive elements of the main ridge may be angulated to prevent stray light reflected therefrom from reaching the image end of the assembly.
摘要:
A camera which releases the shutter based on the wink of a photographer when vibrations are affecting the camera. The camera includes a wink detection device which detects a wink of the photographer and produces a corresponding wink detection output signal, and a vibration detection device which detects vibrations affecting the camera and produces a corresponding vibration detection signal. A control mechanism is responsive to the wink detection output signal and the vibration detection signal to control the release of the shutter. The wink detection device operates by emitting a visible light signal towards the photographer's eye, reflecting the signal off the photographer's eye, and then receiving the reflected signal. A wink of the photographer is detected based on the amount of reflected light received by the light receiving device. The wink detection device includes an LED which emits the signal. The LED can also operate as an indicator in the viewfinder to notify the photographer that the shutter will be released upon a wink. A cover member can be arranged between the camera and the face of the photographer to protect the wink detection device and the photographer's eye from being exposed to dust and particles, thereby preventing unintended blinking or inaccurate detection of a wink.
摘要:
A camera having a built-in first flash light emitting unit located directly above a photographic lens on the front surface of the camera body, and a second flash light emitting unit located at an upper corner of the front face of the camera body. The camera has autofocus capabilities, and reduces shadows created during close-up photography and reduces the "red eye" phenomenon created during far away photography through the control of each of the two flash light emitting units.
摘要:
Range measuring device for a camera measures the distances to objects respectively present in a central area of the photographing field and in plural areas including those surrounding the central area, then produces an outdoor signal indicating that the photographing is conducted outdoors or an indoor signal indicating that the photographing is conducted indoors, discriminates whether the object in the central area is the main object to be focused from the measured distance of the central area, and, if the distance in the central area is included in a reference distance range, determines the photographing distance based at least on the measured distance of the central area. The reference distance range is selected to be larger when the outdoor signal is produced than the case when the indoor signal is produced.
摘要:
A lens driving device for a zoom and a multifocus lens housing of a camera, the lens driving device comprising a holding member for holding imaging lenses and having a first helicoid formed relative to the optical axis of the lenses; a rotary member having a second helicoid which is arranged to engage to the first helicoid, the rotary member being arranged to be engaged to the holding member via the two helicoids and rotatably supported relative to the optical axis to a camera housing; a guide member which is provided for either of the holding member or the camera housing and which has two guide surfaces extending in the direction of the optical axis; and supporting members provided for the residual one of the holding member and the camera housing and having at least one pair of rotary members to which the guide surfaces of the guide member are brought into contact, whereby the contact of the guide member and the supporting members prevents the rotation of the holding member and allows the holding member to rectilinearly move in the direction of the optical axis in accordance with the rotation of the rotary member. As a result, the contact between the guide member and the supporting member prevents the rotation of the holding member, allows the holding member to rectilinearly move in the direction of the optical axis of the lens in accordance with the rotation of the rotary member so that the lens group can smoothly rectilinearly move.
摘要:
A camera has a light shielding member surrounding an axially movable lens housing arranged to project through a circular opening in a camera housing. The light shielding member has an annular disc portion with an inner peripheral grooved surface frictionally engaging an outer cylindrical surface of the lens housing. The disc portion is positioned between a transverse inner surface of the camera housing cover and a surface of a helicoid member. At its outer periphery, the light shielding member has a generally cylindrical flange that projects axially between a longitudinal inner surface of the camera housing and the helicoid.
摘要:
A lens driving device for a zoom and a multifocus lens housing of a camera, the lens driving device comprising a holding member for holding imaging lenses and having a first helicoid formed relative to the optical axis of the lenses; a rotary member having a second helicoid which is arranged to engage to the first helicoid, the rotary member being arranged to be engaged to the holding member via the two helicoids and rotatably supported relative to the optical axis to a camera housing; a guide member which is provided for either of the holding member or the camera housing and which has two guide surfaces extending in the direction of the optical axis; and supporting members provided for the residual one of the holding member and the camera housing and having at least one pair of rotary members to which the guide surfaces of the guide member are brought into contact, whereby the contact of the guide member and the supporting members prevents the rotation of the holding member and allows the holding member to rectilinearly move in the direction of the optical axis in accordance with the rotation of the rotary member. As a result, the contact between the guide member and the supporting member prevents the rotation of the holding member, allows the holding member to rectilinearly move in the direction of the optical axis of the lens in accordance with the rotation of the rotary member so that the lens group can smoothly rectilinearly moves.
摘要:
In a lens barrel having at least two joinable cylinders made of plastic, a sink mark is hard to be formed in the two cylinders and the compactness of the lens barrel and low cost are maintained while the construction is not complex and the number of parts is not increased. The leakage of light is prevented even when a joint is shallow.
摘要:
A view finder unit removably mounted on a single lens reflex camera body to enable the in-focus state of a picture-taking lens to be observed, the camera body having an opening portion provided to direct an imaging light beam projected by the picture-taking lens to the outside of the camera body, includes a housing removably mounted on the camera body and having an opening portion for directing the imaging light beam into the housing, said opening portion being coincident with the opening portion of the camera body, an optical system disposed in the housing to enable a first image formed by the imaging light beam to be observed through the opening portion of the housing, imaging means disposed in the housing for forming a second image substantially equivalent to the first image, in-focus detecting means including photoelectric detecting means disposed in the housing adjacent to the focal plane of the imaging means and producing an electrical signal representing the state of the second image in the focal plane, display means disposed in the housing and driven by the electrical signal of the in-focus detecting means to observably display the in-focus state of the picture-taking lens, and a battery chamber disposed in the housing for containing therein batteries which supply electrical energy to the in-focus detecting means and the display means.