Abstract: A video system includes a video camera for obtaining image signals, and a video recorder for recording the image signals. Driving power provided in the recorder, for loading a tape over a recording drum, is transmitted to the video camera after the tape is fully loaded on the drum. Movable parts in the video camera such as an automatic focus adjusting mechanism, can then be driven by the driving power source in the recorder.

Abstract: A color video camera includes an image pick-up device for converting images into electrical signals including a plurality of color signal elements, white picture forming circuitry for introducing a white picture to the image pick-up device and a white balance control for controlling a proportion of each color signal element contained in an output of the image pick-up device so as to have a prescribed ratio. A power source switch is included for supplying current to individual circuits in the video camera. The camera also includes an operation member having three positions.

Abstract: A color video camera includes an image pick-up device for converting images into electrical signals including a plurality of color signal elements, white picture forming circuitry for introducing a white picture to the image pick-up device and a white balance control for controlling a proportion of each color signal element contained in an output of the image pick-up device so as to have a prescribed ratio. A power source switch is included for supplying current to individual circuits in the video camera. The camera also includes an operation member having three positions.

Abstract: A motor wind up device which is automatically stopped after completion of photography of a roll of film in a camera. A control circuit of the motor controlling the wind up operation is changed over from a stop state to a wind up state by means of a signal produced when the shutter has run. When the motor is once stopped when over-torque is detected at the termination of the film to carry out the release operation, no shutter operation signal is produced because the shutter has not yet been completely wound up so that the motor will not run. When the film is terminated at the beginning of wind up operation, the device prevents the production of a false shutter operation completion signal even if the shutter does not run.

Abstract: In the camera disclosed, a light measuring device and input data setting device establish exposure control signals which regulate exposure elements. When the control signal is out of range of an element, a switch turns on an adjusting arrangement which resets the setting device. The setting device may preset an element such as the aperture or shutter.

Abstract: A motor drive unit adapted for use with a camera having a motorized shutter speed adjusting device. When a continuous series of frame exposures are to be made at a predetermined frame frequency, the set value of shutter time in the camera is made to be compared with the longest possible shutter time dependent upon that frame frequency by a comparator provided in the motor drive unit. When the actual shutter time value exceeds the longest possible one, the motorized shutter speed adjusting device is actuated, causing the shutter time value to change itself to the longest possible value.

Abstract: In a camera adapted for use with a motor drive unit capable of selectively controlling film winding and rewinding operations, there are provided first and second driving torque input means, the first input means being positioned for continual engagement with a film winding up mechanism, and the second input means being arranged upon setting movement of a manually operated rewinding knob to attain driving engagement with a rewinding shaft and being located outside a film cartridge chamber to insure the protection of the film from fogging. The motor drive unit has a pair of output means connected through respective directionally-responsive clutches to a common motor and arranged upon attachment to the camera to engage the respective input means of the camera and has a single operating member for selectively actuating each of the output means for the film winding and rewinding operation.

Abstract: In a photographic camera for use with a single-reel magazine wherein the film after withdrawn by a film advancing sprocket for exposure purposes has to be transported backwards to the magazine while the sprocket being idle, a mechanism for releasing the sprocket from braking engagement with a drive member therefor is provided with two control or rewinding buttons arranged to be manually actuable from the outside of the camera housing at respective places, one of which is located in a recess of the bottom panel thereof so that, for example, when a motor drive unit is attached thereto, an automatic responding relationship is established therebetween, and another place which is located so that, while the user is unabled to make use of the first-named rewinding button, as, for example, a tripod remains left in attachment with the camera at its bottom panel, it is made possible to switch the camera from the film winding to the rewinding state.

Abstract: An automatic exposure control system permitting for a photographic camera to make an exposure in either of the shutter preselection automatic exposure range and the diaphragm preselection automatic exposure range is established by combination of an adapter unit with the camera. This adapter unit has a housing attachable to and detachable from the camera body, and includes an exposure operation and control circuit capable, upon preselection of an exposure time, of deriving an exposure value representing an effective exposure aperture, and, upon preselection of diaphragm value, of deriving an exposure value representing an exposure time. Responsive to the output of the adapter unit, the control device in the camera body controls operation of the shutter and diaphragm mechanisms thereof selectively in accordance with the exposure value derived from said exposure operation and control circuit.

Abstract: A device adapted for the purpose of enabling the use of presently available interchangeable photographic lenses in recently developed digitalized single lens reflex camera systems. This device is constructed in the form of an adaptor attachable to and detachable from the body of an interchangeable lens mount and capable, upon attachment to a conventional interchangeable lens, of providing information representing the full open F number of the interchangeable lens in the form of a coded digital signal. This signal is applied to a digitalized camera body associated therewith and provided, for example, with an inputting device adapted to receive the full open F number of the interchangeable lens as coded digital signal.

Abstract: In a combination of a photographic camera with an accessory equipment such as a motor drive unit attached thereto, when the voltage of a power source or battery provided in the camera for application to an automatic exposure control circuit thereof has fallen below a satisfactory operating level, a transfer switch is automatically operated to shift the connection of the exposure control circuit from the battery of the camera to an electrical power source or battery provided in the accessory equipment.

Abstract: A camera equipped with a shutter preselection automatic exposure range and a diaphragm preselection automatic exposure range is automatically switched to the shutter preselection mode when the camera is assembled with a motor drive unit which is set in RUN position, whereby it is insured that a series of successive frame exposures can be made at a predetermined frame frequency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical driving circuit of a camera, particularly for preventing the misoperation of the release, whereby an interval timer for controlling a constant period of taking photographs is provided so as to carry out the release operation with the period controlled by the interval timer, while the operation state of the film winding up means of the camera is detected in such a manner that the release operation with the period of the interval timer is prohibited when the operation of the film winding up means has not been completed before the release operation with the period of the interval timer.

Abstract: An electrically operated extrinsic coordinating system for the light metering and exposure controlling circuits of a photographic camera, the camera also having incorporated therein an intrinsic coordinating system for those circuits, comprises first and second electronic switches connected in the respective power supply circuits for the light metering and exposure controlling circuits through respective interconnection channels to shunt the first and second switches of the intrinsic coordinating system, a delay circuit connected between the first and second electronic switches, and an operating switch arranged to be accessible from the outside of the camera and cooperative with the first electronic switch upon manual closure of the operating switch to actuate the light metering and exposure controlling circuits for the power supply in predetermined time-displaced relation to each other independently of the intrinsic coordinating system.

Abstract: A flash exposure control system comprising a flash lighting unit, a battery circuit connected to said flash lighting unit to energize said flash lighting unit during an exposure, a switching arrangement connected to said flash lighting unit to control the termination of energization of said flash lighting unit, a timer for controlling the conduction of said switching arrangement, the timer having an adjustable circuit for adjusting the duration of conducting time as a function of the camera-to-object distance and the adjustable circuit being responsive to the camera focus adjustment, and an aperture adjusting unit responsive to the focus adjustment for defining an exposure aperture.

Abstract: A motor driven photographing control circuit for a double preference type automatic exposure control camera which is used for continuous photographing with a motor drive device attached thereto. When a sum of the shutter time computed by a shutter time computing circuit and the length of time required for a winding operation become longer than a preset photographing cycle in carrying out such continuous photographing, an alarm is displayed giving a warning that photographing in the preset cycle is not possible. Concurrently with this, a stop preference mode of photographing is shifted to a shutter preference mode and the shutter is controlled to be operated at a preset length of time, so that continuous photographing can be accomplished in a set cycle.

Abstract: The present invention refers to an apparatus for taking photographs of an object in close proximity by means of a flash. A proper exposure is obtained for the object in close proximity with the use of flash equipment with variable illumination intensity, in accordance with the equation ##EQU1## L: Distance to the object M: Photographic magnificationa: ConstantN: Film sensitivityPe: Effective lighting quantityF: Aperture of diaphragmThe flash equipment is designed in such a manner that the flash light part of the flash equipment can nearly be brought in alignment with the optical axis of the objective of the photographic camera while the illumination intensity of the flash light can be varied.

Abstract: In a roll film camera combined with a long length film magazine detachably mounted on the rear of the camera body, a film contained in the supply spool in the magazine is pulled past an exposure aperture by an intermittent-drive film advancing sprocket, while the take up spool in the magazine is driven by a separate driving means through a slip clutch to take up the film advanced from the sprocket. In one embodiment, this arrangement is provided with a film guiding means having buffering and braking functions mounted in the magazine and positioned between the sprocket and the take up spool so that when the sprocket is stopped while the separate driving means is driving the take up spool, the film is brought into frictional engagement with the surface of the film guiding means, whereby the film is braked and stabilized from residual movement during exposure.

Abstract: In a shutter-time-preference single lens reflex camera, in which the shutter time control is done with a predetermined shutter time, and diaphragm value is determined by an output information of a photometric means which measures a transmission light of a photographing lens and the above predetermined shutter time information, a camera actuating means provided in the camera body is put into operation through a magnet means provided in the camera body so that the aperture of the photographing is controlled in accordance with the above predetermined diaphragm value, and then the shutter time control is performed. Further, the camera includes an electric driving device and the driving of the electric driving device is controlled by a safety switch which, in turn, is controlled for its ON and OFF conditions by the completion of the exposure operations such as the operation of the shutter rear screen.

Abstract: A roll film camera of the type in which the film may be contained either in a magazine of normal film frame capacity removably mounted within the camera body or in a magazine of large film frame capacity detachably mounted on the rear of the camera body and in which the film transport and shutter tensioning mechanisms are operatively connected with each other by means of a single operating member. The film transport mechanism is provided with clutch means arranged between said single operating member and the driving means for the camera side takeup spool upon attachment of the large capacity film magazine to the camera body for disconnecting the takeup spool driving means from the single operating member.