Abstract: A camera shutter of the type in which a shutter blade is initially displaced from an open position, in which a shutter opening is open, to a closed position, in which the shutter opening is closed, prior to the exposure-taking operation includes an actuating member displaceable in shutter-opening and shutter-closing directions to actuate the shutter blade in opening and closing directions. A drive motor effects displacement of the actuating member in the shutter-opening and shutter-closing directions, and a biasing spring biases the actuating member in the shutter-opening direction thereby preventing accidental closing of the shutter blade in the event impacts are applied to the camera. A detection switch detects when the shutter blade is in the open position, the switch being responsive to displacement of the actuating member in the shutter-opening direction to detect the open position of the shutter opening.

Abstract: A shutter for a single lens reflex camera performs exposure operation by means of a drive motor after closing once an opening responding to release operation from a state that the shutter opening is opened.Said shutter provides a drive member actuated by the drive motor, an operating member which opens and closes the shutter opening by actuating a shutter blade actuated by said drive member, holding means for holding said operating member at an opened position of the shutter opening and means for closing said shutter blade rapidly at the initial stage of actuation of said drive motor.

Abstract: A camera capable of multiple exposure photography. The camera has a lens shutter for performing a programmed exposure operation and a diaphragm-adjusting operation and a focal-plane shutter. The camera further includes a first selector means and a second selector means. The operation mode of the camera is switched between a lens shutter mode and a focal-plane shutter mode by the first selector means. In the lens shutter mode, the lens shutter is operated as a programmed shutter. In the focal-plane shutter mode, the shutter speed and the aperture are controlled by the focal-plane shutter and the lens shutter, respectively. The second selector means establishes a multiple exposure photographic mode. Also, the second selector means sets up the lens shutter mode irrespective of the setting of the first selector means.

Abstract: Light projected from active lighting means or light projecting means toward an object is reflected by said object and a light spot is produced on a light sensitive element by the reflected light. A distance to said object is determined by sensing a position of said light spot. When a shade detector scanning the surface of the light sensitive element shields the light spot generated by the light reflected from the object, a photoelectric output from said light sensitive element is varied. Correspondence between the position of said shade detector when said photoelectric output is varied and a distance to said object enables a measurement of the distance to said object.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shutter release device is provided with an electromagnet including an armature. A control circuit including two delay circuits are connected to the electromagnet for energizing same for a first period upon the initiation of the shutter release operation and thereafter energizing same for a second period upon the initiation of the exposure operation. The armature is mounted for movement to a first position during the first period, movement into a second position between the first and second periods and maintaining of same in the second position in the second period and into a third position after the second period. The movement of the armature from the first to the second position initiates the exposure operation and the movement of the armature from the second to the third position initiates the aperture closing operation which in turn begins the energization of the electromagnet during the second period whereupon the armature is maintained in position.

Abstract: A flash changeover device for a shutter is operative when the exposure operation is performed by cancelling the retention on a shutter blade control in the charged state by the operation of an actuating member which has previously been charged and is actuated by a shutter release operation. The device includes a flash system changeover member, a switching member, a synchronizing switch and wherein the switching member is oscillatably mounted on the changeover member so as to close the synchronizing switch in connection with the operation of the actuating member when the flash system changeover member is set to a first position and to close the synchronizing switch in connection with the shutter blade opening operation of the shutter blade control member when the flash system changeover member is set at a second position. The synchronizing switch has contacts having relative positions which are independent of the position of the changeover member when the synchronizing switch is in the open state.

Abstract: In an automatic focusing camera, a shutter blade control device comprises a first movable actuating member for controlling a focusing member, a second movable actuating member for controlling a shutter blade control member and a delay device mounted on one of the two actuating members and engaged with the other actuating member to regulate the movement of the two actuating members with respect to each other. In operation, one actuating member is held stationary and the movement of the other is under the action of the delay device. Thereafter, the other actuating member is stationary and the one actuating member moves under the action of the delay device.

Abstract: In an automatic focusing camera having a shutter control member for controlling the shutter mechanism and a focusing member for regulating the position of the camera lens, an actuating member is provided for controlling the focusing member and the shutter control member. The actuating member is a single slidably mounted element which is movable between a charged position and a rest position and is biased into the rest position. The actuating member actuates the focusing member in the initial stage of movement from the charged position to the rest position and actuates the shutter control member in the final stage of the movement to the rest position.

Abstract: An automatic focusing camera capable of automatically focusing the photographic lens thereof by a system actuated by a signal produced by a focus detection circuit when the distance between the object to be photographed by the camera is detected includes an exposure control device comprising an exposure control circuit and an electromagnet. A photographic lens focusing member is movable in response to the shutter release operation and is stopped in response to the magnetizing of the electromagnet. An exposure device is actuated to open to start the exposure after the photographic lens focusing member is stopped, and is closed in response to the demagnetizing of the electromagnet which occurs upon the receipt thereof of the exposure completion signal generated by the exposure control circuit. In this way, a common electromagnet is used for both the focus control and the exposure control to simplify the construction of the camera and to reduce the cost thereof.

Abstract: In an electronic program shutter having sectoral shutter blades functioning in varying both the aperture and the exposure time corresponding to the brightness of the field, a synchronizing device according to the present invention comprises a sectoral shutter blade control lever which is oscillatable and capable of opening and closing the sectoral shutter blades and is normally urged in the direction that the sectoral shutter blades keep the aperture closed, a driving member which travels in one direction according to the shutter release operation, an actuating lever rotatable about a shaft fitted on the driving member and interlocked with the sectoral shutter blade control lever, an electromagnet which is unmagnetized at an exposure completion signal given by an exposure control circuit, and an armature which operates a flash light switch and cancels the engagement between the sectoral shutter blade control lever and the actuating lever when the electromagnet is unmagnetized and the attraction by the electro

Abstract: A diaphragm control device for flash photography is incorporated in a programming electric eye camera including an exposure control circuit and capable of automatically setting exposure time and diaphragm aperture according to the light of subject, the exposure control circuit has a photoconductive element and is adapted for controlling an electromagnet.The device includes a diaphragm lever operating in a fixed manner by the action of a spring to define diaphragm aperture, a control arm of a distance setting member, a diaphragm regulation lever controlled by the control arm and a change lever for interchanging first or second positions, at respective positions the diaphragm regulation lever being out of or in the turnable area of the diaphragm control lever.

Abstract: A camera with a photoflash circuit for performing the preparatory operation of charging a main capacitor with high voltage produced by an electrical oscillation circuit and flash operation in synchronization with a shutter exposure operation for the taking of a photograph, a data recorder circuit for recording data such as the date on film under electrical control, both circuits being operated with a single battery, characterized in that when both the photoflash and the data recorder circuits are operated, the terminal voltage of the battery is kept unchanged by interrupting the preparatory operation of the photoflash circuit with an operating signal from the data recorder during its recording operation for recording such data on the film with a proper exposure.