Abstract: A method of associating a sound record with a film image, including capturing a film image on a recording medium and unique identifying information corresponding to such film image; recording the sound record and electrically transferring such sound record to a predetermined memory location corresponding to the unique identifying information; printing the unique identifying information on the film image; and retrieving the unique identifying information from the printed image and associating such unique identifying information with the recorded sound record.

Abstract: A camera for partially preexposed, multiple exposure film including a body with an exposure well and a film track across the well. A lens is attached to the camera body at the other end of the exposure well. A mask which includes a plate and a substantially perpendicular flange is positioned at the back of the exposure well adjacent to the film track. The flange extends into the exposure well and is adhered to the wall thereof. The plate includes margins to overlap with the body of the camera about three sides around the exposure well. Another camera includes an asymmetrically arranged exposure well relative to the film track such that the body of the camera about the exposure well extends to cover the preexposed image segment on a multiple exposure film strip.

Abstract: A camera and photography system have multiple, encoded area modes and modification states. The camera has a case, a taking lens that defines an image plane in the case, and a capture member for capturing a series of images formed by the taking lens at the image plane. The camera has an area designator that identifies a plurality of different areas of the image plane and is switchable to designate a selected area, and a modification designator that is switchable among a plurality of image modification states to designate a selected state. An encoder records the selected area and selected state concurrent with image capture.

Abstract: An electric motor 12 and a gear head 13 are located in the space inside the take-up spool 5, an output shaft 13a of the gear head 13 formed such that it has a length that accommodates the engagement length of the take-up spool only is direct-coupled to the take-up spool 5, while an output gear 6 to receive the drive power for rewinding, etc., is formed as a single unit with the take-up spool 5. As a result of this construction, the amount of dead space above the take-up spool is reduced to the extent possible, the height of the camera is reduced, and the camera is made more compact.

Abstract: A camera comprising a front taking lens, an exposure chamber centered about an optical axis of the taking lens and having a rear backframe opening for exposing successive sections of a filmstrip, and a circuit board located between the taking lens and the backframe opening and having an opening centered about the optical axis which is smaller the backframe opening, is characterized in that the opening in the circuit board is located within the exposure chamber to make a peripheral edge of the opening serve as a light baffle for the backframe opening.

Abstract: An image capture package, such as a one-time use camera, has a capture member bearing an encodement for an image transmogrification. The capture member captures images free of the image transmogrification. The image capture package has a sighting guide associated with the capture member. The sighting guide identifies a region of the captured images that is subject to the image transmogrification. A photography system includes a plurality of the image capture packages and a processing system that digitally modifies the captured images responsive to respective encodements.

Abstract: A camera comprising an aperture through which ambient light is passed to cause a film exposure, at least one shutter blade supported for opening movement to uncover the aperture to permit ambient light to pass through the aperture and for closing movement to re-cover the aperture and susceptible of being moved open accidentally such as when the camera is dropped or jarred, and a shutter release button manually depressible to initiate opening movement of the shutter blade, is characterized in that an indicator is activatable to provide a warning the shutter blade has been moved open without the shutter release button having been manually depressed, whereby the warning indicates the shutter blade has been moved open accidentally such as when the camera is dropped or jarred.

Abstract: A camera having curcuitry for detecting the type of loaded film has a processor for reading information from a recording portion of the loaded film. Detection circuitry is provided for detecting the type of film loaded in the camera, and an adjustment circuit is provided for adjusting a signal level of the information read by the processor. The adjustment circuit changes an adjustment characteristic on the basis of the film type detected by the detection circuit.

Abstract: A one-time use camera having a strobe unit and performing stroboscopic photographing by causing a xenon discharge tube to emit light. The camera includes a film roll chamber for accommodating a photographic film and the strobe unit. The strobe unit further includes a pair of strobe circuit base boards, arranged on both sides of a front surface of the film roll chamber of the one-time use camera, for driving the xenon discharge tube and a connecting member for electrically connecting the strobe circuit base boards with each other.

Abstract: A camera support device for elevating a camera above its operator. The device provides a stable support and allows the operator to manually control the camera's field of view. The device comprises a support base, a rotatable telescoping pole and a tiltable camera mount at the top of the pole that may be manually controlled. The tilt control of the camera mount is preferably provided by a spring lever which biases the camera platform to rotate forward. A cable is attached to the camera mount and is used to apply resistance to the spring lever and to rotate the camera backwards. The lower end of the cable is attached to a control arm connected to the pole at a location that is accessible by the operator. The camera's field of view may be manually raised or lowered by lowering or raising the control wire respectively. In addition, the camera may be manually panned left or right by rotating the pole accordingly.

Abstract: A practically excellent screen assembly in which a screen may be located at a high level position without any discrete assistance, and leg members provided therefor may be well received in a non-use condition. The screen assembly is characterized in that a screen winding receiver for winding and receiving a screen member, having a flexibility, is provided within a case member having a grip portion. A pair of screen support members for supporting the screen member when the screen member is drawn upwardly are pivoted on right and left sides of the case member. On the other hand, leg members extending downwardly are pivoted on the right and left sides of the case member, and the screen support members and the leg members are formed to have a length so as riot to project from the ends of the case member when the screen support members and the leg members are angularly moved to be attached to the case member.

Abstract: A viewfinder device includes an objective lens, a hologram disposed in a place other than a prescribed image plane of the objective lens and a plane conjugate to the prescribed image plane, and an illumination device for illuminating the hologram. The position of a virtual image formed by the hologram is arranged to coincide with the prescribed image plane or the plane conjugate to the prescribed image plane, so that displays can be made in an adequate state within the visual field of a viewfinder.

Abstract: Because the keys located on the first rotating barrel have essentially the same inner diameter as the second rotating barrel, no unnecessary space is formed inside the first rotating barrel and the second rotating barrel. In addition, although the inner diameter of the keys of the first rotating barrel and the inner diameter of the second rotating barrel are essentially the same, because the keys engage with the straight advancement grooves on the second rotating barrel, the first rotating barrel and the second rotating barrel do not interfere with each other. Moreover, because the keys that are thinner than the second rotating barrel overlap with the second rotating barrel, said keys being inside the second rotating barrel, the thickness of the keys does not affect the outer diameter of the lens barrel at all.

Abstract: The close-up photographing apparatus includes a range determining frame having a guide plate at a front end thereof. A frontal opening defining a photographic object area is formed in the guide plate. The range determining frame allows a photographic object placed in the frontal opening to be at an optimum distance for a best photographing result. The guide plate allows the apparatus to be placed flat on a table or the like supporting a photographic object. The apparatus further includes a strobe light for lighting the object in the frontal opening, and an aperture member defining a small aperture opening which achieves a large depth of field and a proper photographic exposure in cooperation with the strobe light.

Abstract: A camera comprises a first device which makes a head and a film closer to each other, the head being arranged to perform at least either one of recording and reading information on and from the film, a second device which prevents the film from travelling when a film transport device is placed in a stopped state, and an interlocking device which mechanically interlocks the first device and the second device.

Abstract: A self-photography apparatus has an imaging device for picking up an image signal representing a facial image of a human object, a determination device for determining the size of face of the human object. In accordance with the determined face size, the magnification of the image is adjusted so as to make the facial image have a predetermined size in a photograph. The determination device is comprised of a monitor display displaying a video facial image of the human object and indices as the scale of the face size. The magnification of image is changed by manually or automatically changing the object distance or mechanically changing the focal length of a taking lens device. When making a photograph by video printing, the determination device may be a controller determining the face size on the basis of the image signal, an image magnification conversion circuit converts the magnification of image in accordance with the face size determined by the controller.

Abstract: An illumination apparatus is provided capable of obtaining identical line widths at all positions in an image surface. A projection exposure apparatus using this illumination apparatus is also provided as well as a method of manufacturing the projection exposure apparatus and a method of manufacturing a device using this apparatus. The illumination apparatus includes a light source system for supplying a light beam, an optical integrator for forming a plurality of light sources based on a light beam from the light source and a condenser optical system for converging beams from the plurality of light sources for illuminating an illuminated surface. The apparatus also has a filter placed in a location that is in an optically conjugate relationship to the illuminated surface. The filter has at least a first area corresponding to a first portion of the plurality of light sources, and a second area corresponding to a second portion of the plurality of light sources other than the first portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a camera having a reproducing circuit for reproducing information recorded in a magnetic recording portion of a film. This invention provides a camera capable of properly reproducing information by using the reproducing circuit in such a manner that the reproducing characteristics of the reproducing circuit are adjusted in accordance with the speed at which said image recording member is fed.

Abstract: An underwater camera which comprises a shutter release button having an elastic construction that permits the shutter release button to be manually depressed to initiate shutter opening and to be increasingly depressed because of increases in the water pressure as the underwater depth of the camera is increased, and an underwater depth gauge that indicates increases in the underwater depth of the camera, is characterized in that the underwater depth gauge is coupled with the shutter release button for the underwater depth gauge to indicate increases in the underwater depth of the camera in accordance with increases in the depression of the shutter release button.

Abstract: A release switch apparatus having a release button which is supported in a camera body so as to move between an initial position and a specific operational position in which the release button is pushed down. The apparatus includes a light emitter provided in the release button or in the vicinity thereof and an emission controller for causing the light emitter to emit light when the release button is moved from the initial position. A light receiver is provided in the camera body or in the release button to receive light emitted from the light emitter, and a controller is provided which operates in response to the output to the light receiver.