Abstract: A loan facilitation system and method facilitates payday loan transactions by establishing a loan access account at a loan facilitation server. The loan facilitation server communicates with a loan operator server and a financial institution server to manage funds in a pooled account at the financial institution. The funds being cleared funds and associated with one or more loan access accounts, which are associated with customer accounts of a payday loan operator.

Abstract: A transparent film member (10) for superimposing an icon (13) on individual film frames (12') of an exposable film strip (12) as the frames are exposed in a camera (7) is described. The transparent film member (10) is detachably or permanently secured to a film canister (11) containing the exposable film strip (12) and secured in such a manner as to position the transparent film member between an aperture of an exposure chamber (21) of a camera and the film strip (12) whereby the icon (13) may be transferred onto individual frames (12') as they are exposed to produce a composite image comprised of a subject (24) being photographed and the icon (13).

Abstract: Multiple mode "tele," "pan" and "normal" prints are produced automatically using a tele/pan camera. With the camera set to a single frame - multiple mode option, a single exposed frame is encoded with a composite fiducial representing all of the chosen modes. During subsequent printing, in response to sensing the composite code, a printer produces multiple prints from the single frame, each print corresponding to a different one of the modes. With the camera set to a multiple frame - multiple mode option, a single depression of a shutter release button initiates a rapid sequence of exposures of multiple frames, each exposure being coded to correspond with a different single one of the multiple modes. Subsequent printing then proceeds on a one frame - one print basis to produce prints in each mode.

Abstract: An automatic viewer for half-frame stereoprints includes a base with a pair of lenses for stereoscopic viewing mounted thereon. The base has a kicking foot and picking detent projecting therethrough for engaging openings in a carrier deck upon which the half-frame stereoprints are pivotally mounted. A control mechanism utilizes cams to coordinate movement of the kicking foot and picking detent to index the carrier deck across the base so that the photoprints may be viewed individually. The carrier deck has two rows of openings for receiving the kicker foot, allowing the viewer to advance the carrier deck from either end presenting a first set of photoprints for viewing when advancing from one end and a second set of photoprints for viewing when advanced from the opposite end. The carrier deck may be stored with other carrier decks in a binder.

Abstract: An image in a printed photograph is provided with a border for writing by fogging the border of the negative frame from which the printed photograph is prepared after the frame is exposed to the image by opening a camera shutter. Fogging is performed by an electrical illumination source positioned downstream of the camera shutter and energized upon winding the filmstrip including the frame on a take-up spool. A switch is provided for fogging selected frames. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the switch reduces the height of the field in the view finder of the camera.

Abstract: Insertion of a planar element of plastic into the optical path between camera taking lens and the film, or rack and pinion rotation of the lens is a threaded lens mount, under the control of the device by which the user selects that particular pseudo or other image, adjusts the compromise setting of the lens to provide improved focus in the film area receiving the selected type of image.

Abstract: A photographic camera is provided with a viewfinder having two lens assemblies and a separate mask. A movable member for positioning the two lens assemblies and the mask has a first position wherein the first lens assembly is in alignment with a viewing axis, a second position wherein the second lens assembly is in alignment with the viewing axis and a third position wherein both the second lens assembly and the mask are in alignment with the viewing axis. A lost motion connection between the second lens assembly and the mask enable the second lens assembly and the mask to be aligned in the third position.

Abstract: A photographic camera includes a viewfinder having a plurality of settable viewing modes and a shutter release means. A single actuating member is movable in a plane between a plurality of mode setting positions for setting the viewing mode of the viewfinder. The actuating member is movable perpendicular to the plane to actuate the shutter release means.

Abstract: A still camera provides for multiple-frame bursts of sequential exposures while continuously rotating a film take-up spool by creating slack in the filmstrip just upstream of the take-up spool. Subsequent to creating the slack in the take-up spool, a film metering sprocket, which is positively engaged by the filmstrip, is abruptly stopped to arrest motion of the filmstrip so that a frame may be exposed. The exposure time is substantially less than the time required for the take-up spool to wind in the slack. Indexing of the film is accomplished by a pivoted arm which engages both the film and the periphery of a cam rotatable with the metering sprocket. The pivoted arm both creates slack in the film which allows the take-up spool to run continuously and stops rotation of the sprocket to permit exposure of the film.

Abstract: A viewfinder for a tele/pan camera includes a slidable U-shaped bracket having three spaced eyepiece lenses with associated reticles and two spaced auxiliary lenses. The bracket is shiftable relative to the optical axis of a fixed panoramic lens and spherical mirror, to provide changes in viewfinder magnification and fields of view corresponding to "pan," "normal" and "tele" settings.

Abstract: An electrically operated shutter for photographic apparatus, particularly cameras, wherein a movable element for blocking and unblocking the light path to the film is operated by the bending and unbending of a bimetallic element upon heating by electric current and subsequent cooling, preferably with the use of heat sink means moveable into heat transferring relation with the bimetallic element to hasten cooling.

Abstract: A tele/pan camera is provided with automatic means cooperating with exposure control circuitry to reduce blur in a portion of an exposed frame coded for subsequent pseudo format enlargement, for increasing the normal shutter speed, with corresponding adjustment of other exposure parameters, in response to selection of the pseudo format.

Abstract: Data printing device for a camera which takes normal and pseudo type images wherein the characters are printed near an edge of the selected image area in both the normal and pseudo modes, optionally with reduction in character size in the pseudo mode.

Abstract: Automatic metering and registration, between exposures, relative to an exposure station in a still camera of a next available unexposed frame of a perforationless filmstrip is achieved by reading frame number identifying cues, including stop point flags, magnetically encoded on the film. Continuation of registration is confirmed and, if necessary, corrected automatically in preparation for the next exposure by reading the same cues and comparing a stored cue for a desired next frame with a cue read from a registered unknown frame. The direction of film movement for misalignment correction is set based on the frame number comparison.

Abstract: The speed of frame-to-frame advance after exposure in a camera having a pawl which acts with a single perforation per frame film to provide frame registration with an aperture station is optimized without film distortion by generation of a motor control circuit feedback signal giving information as to position and speed of the advancing next frame perforation. In one embodiment, a sensor develops a pulsed signal from the toothed edge of a pawl that travels with the film perforation. In another embodiment, the passage of a prerecorded pattern spaced a known distance from the perforation is sensed.

Abstract: Frame-to-frame advance in a motor drive camera with frame specific data entry capability is delayed until initiation of a next exposure to maximize the time during which data relating to a latest exposure can be entered and/or corrected. A manually-entered "data entry completed" signal switch is provided to override the delay. An "enter data" reminder and data display is provided.

Abstract: Camera with adjustable viewfinder mask having differently dimensioned openings for pseudo-photography, has light pipes to provide binary coding of film frames corresponding to mask positions.

Abstract: An expose-on rewind type camera is used with a film cassette having a film spool which can be rotated to unwind a filmstrip off the spool to thrust a non-protruding film leader to the exterior of the cassette, to enable the filmstrip to be prewound continuously onto a take-up spool in the camera, and alternatively to rewind the filmstrip into the cassette a single frame increment following each exposure in the camera. During the prewind mode of the camera, a metering pawl is retained out of the way of the filmstrip to prevent the pawl from engaging the filmstrip at any of its metering perforations. The metering pawl is allowed to contact the filmstrip in response to change-over from the prewind mode to the rewind mode of the camera, to permit the pawl to meter the filmstrip a single frame increment preparatory to each exposure.

Abstract: In a photographic camera, apparatus is provided for determining when, in a film cassette, a reduced-width trailing end portion of the filmstrip has fallen off a film support which normally positions the filmstrip within range of a tooth for engaging the film leader prior to initial film advance from the cassette shell or following midroll film return to the shell. During a film loading sequence of the photographic camera, the determination that the film leader is positioned out of range of the tooth automatically prevents operation of the film transport or other means, whereby one is alerted not to use the filmstrip.

Abstract: A film cassette is adapted to propel a leading portion of a filmstrip from a light-tight cassette shell in response to rotation of a film spool in an unwinding direction. When the leading portion is advanced to exit the cassette shell, it falls off an exposure-not-completed indicator support to uncover the support. At the same time, the filmstrip continues to cover an exposure-completed indicator support. The exposure-completed indicator support is only uncovered when a trailing portion of the filmstrip falls off the support, after all of the available imaging areas of the filmstrip have been exposed. Conversely, should the filmstrip be rewound into the cassette shell midroll, i.e. before all of its imaging areas have been exposed, the exposure-completed indicator support remains covered. Thus, respective indications can be provided that the filmstrip is either partly or fully used.