摘要:
A camera has a plurality of taking lenses and an equal number of flash sources which are used in a 1:1 relationship that attempts to maximize the flash-to-lens distance in order to reduce red-eye.
摘要:
A flash lamp unit having two connection members which are present on opposing surfaces of the unit and are each suitable for being coupled to a camera. The unit further comprises two series of flash lamps having associated reflectors, one series of flash lamps being arranged nearest to one surface and the other series being arranged nearest to the other surface. Each series of flash lamps can only be flashed by a cooperation between the connection member remote from that series.
摘要:
A flash socket assembly for use with a camera having an exposure control circuit convertible between ambient and flash modes of operation, and a flash assembly especially adapted for use therewith. The flash assembly includes a connector having a set of terminals for a photoflash lamp and an electrically conductive strip. The strip is adapted to bridge a pair of spaced contacts in the socket assembly to convert the exposure control circuit of the camera from an ambient mode of operation to a flash mode of operation upon coupling the flash assembly to the socket assembly.
摘要:
A multilamp flash unit comprising a two-sided linear array of reflectors and photoflash lamps connected to a printed circuit board supported on a plastic base. The assembly is enclosed by a transparent cover, and the printed circuit board has a contact tab which projects through a slot in the base for insertion into an edge connector. Firm location of the printed circuit board and tab position is provided by a support structure comprising a pair of flexible, bifurcated posts which project upwardly from the base on both sides of the slot therein and each of which resiliently engage opposite sides of the printed circuit board by means of flatted protruding portions on the sides of a slot in each post.
摘要:
An extremely shallow flash socket assembly for use in or with a photographic camera is constructed to receive a multilamp flash assembly having an array of lamps facing in a common direction and a thin, shallow connector blade adapted to be inserted into the socket assembly. The socket assembly includes novel structures for preventing inadvertent dislodgement of the flash assembly from the socket assembly.
摘要:
A flash socket assembly for use in or with a photographic camera is constructed to receive a multilamp flash assembly having at least one array of lamps facing in a common direction and a thin, shallow connector blade adapted to be inserted into the socket assembly. An electronic flash selecting circuit, preferably fabricated as an integrated circuit chip, selects one or more of the lamps for ignition in accordance with a predetermined selection program when a firing command is received. The socket assembly includes circuit support means for providing structural support for the flash selecting circuit and protection for the integrated circuit chip, and for facilitating handling of the socket assembly during fabrication thereof and during assembly into an associated photographic camera.
摘要:
A flashlamp holder for a plurality of flashlamps arranged in two series, with circuits and couplings for sequentially igniting the lamps in one series prior to igniting the lamps of the second series. Two separate couplings permit ignition of each series of flashlamps separately.
摘要:
A photographic camera for producing photographic exposures and igniting selected photoflash lamps linearly arrayed in timed sequence therewith includes terminals of magnetizable material for mounting a photoflash lamp assembly and establishing electrical contact between the assembly and the camera. The use of terminals composed of magnetizable materials for mounting and establishing electrical contact allows the user to easily remove and replace the photoflash lamp assembly when all the bulbs therein have been ignited.
摘要:
A foldable flash holder comprised of three integrally molded plastic parts interconnected exclusively by snap fit. One of the parts is a contact retainer which includes an elongated receptacle well for receiving a multi-bulb flash array and a contact retaining bracket formation holding a plurality of U-shaped contacts uniformly spaced with one another, with one end of each contact cantilevered in position for resilient engagement with a contact blade portion of the flash array, while the opposite end of each contact is held in engagement with a flexible power cable. One embodiment of the flash holder includes an actuator movable in response to engagement by the flash array to actuate a mechanism in the associated camera which places the camera in an artificial illumination mode.