Abstract: A multi-lamp flash carrier comprises a plurality of flash lamps and a lamp support for arranging the individual lamps in a spatial succession. The lamp support includes respective lamp holders for the individual lamps, which have integral resilient couplers for connecting the lamp holders to one another and for permitting separation of the lamp holders from one another to selectively change the number of lamp holders for the lamp support and, thus, similarly change the number of flash lamps for the multi-lamp flash carrier. A camera to be used with the multi-lamp flash carrier has a drive for moving the multi-lamp flash carrier to advance the flash lamps successively to a use position for illuminating a subject being photographed. The drive is adjustable to accommodate changing the number of flash lamps for the multi-lamp flash carrier.

Abstract: A camera comprising a housing a having a top and a bottom, and a support for one's forearm and/or wrist, is characterized in that the bottom of the housing is concave to define a rounded inward hollow at a location directly beneath the top of the housing for receiving one's forearm and/or wrist along the bottom of the housing, whereby the support is built into the housing.

Abstract: A camera comprising a pair of front and rear viewfinder openings with a similar aspect ratio which defines a field of view through the front and rear viewfinder openings, and a masking device having a front masking opening with an aspect ratio that is different than the aspect ratio of the front and rear viewfinder openings and being supported to be positioned over the front viewfinder opening to change the field of view through the front and rear viewfinder openings, is characterized in that the masking device has a rear masking opening with the same aspect ratio as the front masking opening and being connected to the front masking opening to be positioned over the rear viewfinder opening when the front masking opening is positioned over the front viewfinder opening. Preferably, the masking device includes an endless masking belt having the pair of front and rear masking openings.

Abstract: A compact camera comprising a camera body, a multi-lamp flash unit supported for movement relative to the camera body to advance respective flash lamps successively to a flash illumination position for illuminating a subject being photographed, and a drive assembly actuated to move the flash unit to advance the flash lamps to the flash illumination position in coordination with film movement to advance respective unexposed film sections successively to an exposure position in the camera body, is characterized in that the flash unit is supported for movement to a folded position collapsed to the camera body for compactness, and separated from the drive assembly to prevent actuation of the drive assembly from moving the flash unit, and to an unfolded position extended from the camera body to be used, and engaged with the drive assembly to permit actuation of the drive assembly to move the flash unit.

Abstract: A one-time use camera comprising a body part which has a wall portion that at least partially defines a cartridge chamber, a film cartridge in the cartridge chamber, and a cover part for the body part, is characterized in that the wall portion has an opening which extends through the wall portion to form a discrete hole in the wall portion which is smaller than the film cartridge to permit only a section of the film cartridge to protrude into the hole to fill the hole, the film cartridge has a section that protrudes into the hole to fill the hole, and the cover part extends over the body part, but not to the hole, whereby the one-time-use camera is made more compact.

Abstract: A method of remanufacturing a one-time-use camera comprises the following steps. Forcibly pulling apart a main body part and a cover part of the camera sufficiently to cause a predetermined portion of the main body part or cover part to be broken away from the main body part or cover part along a continuous line of weakness which circumscribes the predetermined portion, to leave a hole in the main body part or cover part in the place of the predetermined portion. And closing the hole in the main body part or cover part to reuse the main body part or cover part.

Abstract: A film assemblage comprising a spool core, and a filmstrip, a film leader and a film trailer which are to be wound as a single longitudinal strip on the spool core in a roll with the filmstrip extending between the film leader and the film trailer in order that the film leader, the filmstrip and the film trailer form a common inner side of the roll and a common outer side of the roll, is characterized in that the film trailer has a discrete cohesive patch located to be on the inner side of the roll and a discrete cohesive patch located to be on the outer side of the roll, which can only stick to one another other and not to the inner or outer sides of the roll, and which are spaced apart along the film trailer a distance substantially equal to the circumference of the roll, whereby when the film leader, the filmstrip and the film trailer are wound on the spool core with the film trailer being an innermost convolution of the roll and the film leader being an outermost convolution of the roll the cohesive patch

Abstract: A camera for use with a film cassette having a spool rotatable to wind an exposed filmstrip including a trailing film end portion into the cassette and a light lock movable to be closed after the trailing film end portion is wound into the cassette, comprising a film winder rotatable in engagement with the spool in a film winding direction to rotate the spool in the same direction to wind the exposed filmstrip including the trailing film end portion into the cassette, and a closing actuator movable in engagement with the light lock to close the light lock, is characterized in that a drive motor is drivingly connected with the film winder to rotate the film winder in the film winding direction, and a motor switch capable of changing state to turn off the drive motor is disposed to change state to turn off the drive motor when the closing actuator is moved to close the light lock.

Abstract: A one-time-use camera for use with a film cartridge having a spool rotatable to wind an exposed filmstrip including a trailing film end portion into the cartridge and a light lock movable to be closed after the trailing film end portion is wound into the cartridge, comprising a film winder rotatable in engagement with the spool in a film winding direction to rotate the spool in the same direction to wind the exposed filmstrip including the trailing film end portion into the cartridge, and a closing actuator movable in engagement with the light lock to close the light lock, is characterized in that an anti-backup pawl for engaging the film winder to prevent rotation of the film winder in a reverse direction opposite to the film winding direction is breakable, and the closing actuator has a breaking element for breaking the anti-backup pawl when the closing actuator is moved in engagement with the light lock to close the light lock.

Abstract: A dual wheel frame counter comprises a tenths counter wheel having a series of ten or less evenly spaced units and respective evenly spaced actuated members equal in number to the series of at least two units, and a unit counter wheel having a series of ten evenly spaced units which correspond to the series of at least two units of the tenths counter wheel and a single actuating member which successively actuates the actuated members to rotate the tenths counter wheel one unit in response to each rotation of the unit counter wheel ten units. The unit counter wheel includes an opposed-end concentric channel having an opening between opposite ends of the channel. The single actuating member constitutes a protuberance on the unit counter wheel which is positioned in the opening to leave respective ingress and egress spaces in the opening between the protuberance and the opposite ends of the channel.

Abstract: Respective image representations of a scene in front of a camera are recorded on a recording medium, such as a filmstrip, when the camera is at two separated viewpoints with respect to the scene, in order to obtain a matched pair of right-eye and left-eye pictures that can be simultaneously viewed to present a stereoscopic image of the scene. Respective indications are recorded on the recording medium, distinguishable from the image representations, that the image representations were recorded with the camera at the two separated viewpoints with respect to the scene. Thus, the matched pair of pictures can be kept in the right order for stereoscopic right-eye and left-eye viewing.

Abstract: A compact camera comprising a camera body, a multi-lamp flash unit supported for movement relative to the camera body to advance respective flash lamps successively to a flash illumination position for illuminating a subject being photographed, and a drive assembly actuated in engagement with the flash unit to move the flash unit to advance the flash lamps to the flash illumination position in coordination with film movement to advance respective unexposed film sections successively to an exposure position in the camera body, is characterized in that the flash unit is supported for movement to a folded position collapsed to the camera body for compactness and to an unfolded position extended from the camera body to be used, and the drive assembly remains in engagement with the flash unit during movement of the flash unit between its folded and extended positions.

Abstract: A camera comprising a taking lens, and a carry-strap and associated lens cap attached to the camera. The carry-strap is configured to be looped around the camera in order to position the lens cap over the taking lens and, alternatively, to be extended as a loop from the camera in order to serve as a wrist or neck strap. Engageable means secures the carry-strap looped around the camera and as a loop extended from the camera.

Abstract: A method of remanufacturing a one-time-use camera having the following steps. Cutting a protuberance off a main body part of the camera at a hollowed-out space in the protuberance in order to permit a standard cartridge to replace a modified cartridge within a chamber in the main body part. Closing a hole in the chamber, resulting from the protuberance being cut off the main body part at the hollowed-out space, to prevent ambient light from leaking into the chamber through the hole. And properly positioning the standard cartridge in the chamber.

Abstract: A dual coil actuator comprising a pair of independently moveable electrically conductive coils, is characterized in that a single magnet core generates a single magnetic field, and the coils are positioned around the single magnet core, spaced from each other and from the core, and are supported to be independently moved in the single magnetic field about the single magnet core.

Abstract: A camera comprising a door moveable to be closed, a sprocket wheel having respective teeth for entering successive spaced perforations in a filmstrip to engage the filmstrip and being moveable to a film engaging position for one of the teeth to enter one of the film perforations, and an actuator moveable to move the sprocket wheel to its film engaging position when the door is moved to be closed, is characterized in that the actuator has a compliant member which yields elastically when the actuator is moved to move the sprocket wheel to its film engaging position, but one of the teeth comes to rest against a limited section of the filmstrip between two of the film perforations rather than the tooth entering one of the perforations, whereby the compliant member acts to prevent the tooth from perforating the limited section of the filmstrip.