Abstract: An image processor reduces the load on a user when selecting a frame image from among a group of frame images comprising a dynamic image by executing a specific process for printing and editing. The image processor includes a display controller for displaying a still frame image of a dynamic image with a stop time, and a group of temporally consecutive frame images with the still frame image as the center frame image.

Abstract: A flash controller of a camera system includes a camera body and an interchangeable lens which is detachably attached to the camera body, the camera body including a built-in flash, the interchangeable lens being of a type which can have data communication with the camera body to output lens data on the interchangeable lens to the camera body. The flash controller includes a memory which is provided in the camera body in which data on the built-in flash are pre-stored; and a calculating device, provided in the camera body, for judging whether flashlight emitted from the built-in flash will be interrupted by a periphery of the interchangeable lens in accordance with the lens data input from the interchangeable lens and flash data input from the built-in flash.

Abstract: A curable composition, which can be easily decomposed and removed by means of a mixed solution of acid, water, and optionally an organic solvent, is provided.

Abstract: A camera includes a retractable built-in flash unit which is movable between a retracted position and a discharge position, and a controller which controls the built-in flash and provides an auto flash mode in which the controller allows the built-in flash to discharge automatically when necessary. In the auto flash mode, the controller moves the built-in flash from the retracted position to the discharge position when predetermined conditions are satisfied, and subsequently controls the retractable built-in flash unit to discharge automatically at a time of exposure. Furthermore, the controller temporarily prohibits the retractable built-in flash unit from automatically discharging if the retractable built-in flash unit is pushed down to the retracted position after the controller moves the retractable built-in flash unit from the retracted position to the discharge position.

Abstract: An ordinary temperature curable coating composition comprises an oxidative curable silicon modified vinyl-based resin (A) which is obtained by combining an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (a) with an unsaturated fatty acid-containing fatty acid component (b) and a silicon resin (c). The vinyl copolymer (a) is a copolymer of an epoxy group-containing polymerizable unsaturated first monomer and a polymerizable unsaturated second monomer copolymerizable with the first monomer. The silicon resin (c) contains a silicon atom and a hydroxyl group and/or an alkoxyl group which is bonded to the silicon atom. The coating composition can form a coating film superior in weathering resistance, coating film gloss, and coating operation properties such as storage property, initial drying property and brush stroke during double coatings with a brush.

Abstract: An operation device of a camera includes an indication member comprising a plurality of characters, an operation member which is movable relative to the indication member and includes an index mark for pointing at one of the plurality of characters when the operation member stops at a corresponding stop position thereof; and an illuminating device which illuminates at least one of the plurality of characters at which the index mark points. Also disclosed is a control device for controlling the illuminating device to be turned ON and OFF in a predetermined particular pattern immediately after the power of the camera is turned ON, wherein the control device does not turn the illuminating device ON and OFF in the predetermined particular pattern thereafter, in a power-ON state of the camera.

Abstract: A subject inclination detector provided with: a display for displaying on a screen a subject image comprising a plurality of pixels; a pixel specifier for a user to specify a first pixel from among the pixels; a calculator for defining a pixel group constituting a circumference of an area including the specified first pixel, and calculating deviations in pixel value between adjoining pixels of the pixel group; and a detector for selecting a second pixel and a third pixel based on the calculated deviations, and detecting an inclination of a straight part of the subject based on the selected second and third pixels.

Abstract: The present invention provides:(1) a one-packed epoxy resin composition comprising(A) an epoxy resin having two or more epoxy groups in its molecule and a number average molecular weight of 250 to 4,500,(B) a ketimine compound,(C) a dehydrating agent, and(D) at least one modified epoxy resin (d-1) selected among urethane-modified epoxy resins, amine-modified epoxy resins and dimer-modified epoxy resins and/or a resin (d-2) which has a softening point of 60.degree. C. or above and is at least one member selected among xylene resins, ketone resins, coumarone resins and petroleum resins;(2) a one-packed anticorrosive paint composition comprising the above one-packed epoxy resin composition and (E) a zinc dust in such an amount as to be present in a proportion of 20 to 95 wt.

Abstract: In a lens barrel of a zoom lens, a luminous flux is divided or its path is switched so that the same luminous flux is directed to both a taking optical system and a finer optical system. Focusing and camera shake compensation are performed before division of the luminous flux or switching of its path so that images observed through a finder are already in focus and compensated for camera shakes. The lens barrel has multiple movable segments to allow the taking optical system and the finder optical system to be moved out simultaneously. To achieve zooming, a holding member for holding both a focusing lens unit and other lens units is moved so that all these lens units are moved simultaneously. Adjustment of the focusing lens unit, necessitated as a result of zooming, is achieved by moving a part of the focusing lens unit within the holding member.

Abstract: To shoot a still picture and a moving picture simultaneously, a light beam having passed through a taking lens is split by a half-mirror into two light beams so that one of the split light beams is directed to silver halide film and the other is directed to a CCD. An image captured by the CCD is displayed on a viewfinder. Focus condition of an image on the silver halide film is detected by the phase-difference detection method and focus condition of an image on CCD is detected by the contrast detection method so that, based on detection results, the focus of the taking lens or of a relay optical system is adjusted to obtain a well-focused image. When focus condition detection by one method is impossible, results of focus condition detection by the other method are used to adjust the focus.

Abstract: A camera has a variable focal length lens and a viewfinder system whose magnification is variable in accordance with the focal length of the lens. A line array sensor generates an electrical signal in accordance with the intensity of the received light. A distance measuring optical system, which transmits light from a photographic object to the sensing elements of the sensor, has an optical axis which is different from the optical axis to the viewfinder system. A designator designates a particular sensing area, corresponding to the focal length of the lens, over the sensing elements of the sensor. A first distance data generator generates first distance data based on electrical signals generated by the sensing elements within the designated sensing area, and a second distance data generator generates second distance data based on electrical signals generated by the sensing elements outside of the designated sensing area. A discriminator discriminates whether the first distance data generator is operable.