Abstract: A camera has a pair of nip rollers which are rotated by a toothed belt via gears. Function-controlling elements mounted on the camera are operated when the belt moves.

Abstract: A casing, particularly for roll film cartridges, includes a hollow housing having a chamber for closely receiving a film cartridge and a channel which communicates with the chamber. The channel is operative for receiving a length of roll film which extends out of the cartridge when the latter is inserted into the chamber. The channel extends tangentially to the chamber and has at least one flat inner surface along which the length of roll film can extend to be held in flat condition.

Abstract: A photographic camera comprises two deviating mirrors arranged within the camera housing between the objective and the film strip in such a manner that the optical axis of the light rays between the objective and the assigned first mirror lies on a different plane than the optical axis of the rays between the second mirror and the film strip.

Abstract: A photographic apparatus wherein the objective is movable by a focusing mechanism in response to manual rotation of a ring from a starting position. A spring biases the ring to the starting position through the medium of a follower which carries a blocking lever for the focusing mechanism. The blocking lever is moved from the path of a reciprocable spring-biased toothed rack of the focusing mechanism prior to unlocking of the rack by a lever which is disengaged from the rack during that stage of movement of the ring from its starting position which follows retraction of the blocking lever from the path of the rack. The focusing mechanism has a certain amount of inertia so that it does not change the position of the objective during movement of the photographic apparatus between different positions in which the objective is or may be trained upon objects located at different distances from the apparatus.

Abstract: A camera body has mounted on it a lens mount which is pivotable relative to the camera between an operative and an inoperative position. A mechanism in the camera is activated and transports film from the camera film chamber through the camera during movement of the lens mount from one to the other (or from the other to the one) of the aforementioned positions.

Abstract: A self developing type photographic apparatus wherein one of the spread rollers is driven by one or two toothed racks forming part of or constituting a manually reciprocable handle. One of the racks further rotates a gear which programs the movements of an expelling device for exposed film units, the movements of a device which controls the width of the gap between the spread rollers and the cocking of the shutter.

Abstract: A photographic camera has a film transporting mechanism which requires different amounts of energy during different phases of each film-transporting cycle. A gear drive is provided which furnishes to the mechanism differing energy amounts while itself receiving a substantially constant energy input.

Abstract: A collapsible camera has a lens mount which is pivoted on the camera body and can move between an open and a shut position. An arcuate drive segment is composed of at least two segment parts, both of which pivot on the same pivot axis as the lens mount. These parts can move relative to one another and to the body and lens mount when the latter is opened and closed. The periphery of each part has serrations which engage with the teeth of a pinion that constitutes the input member of a film transporting mechanism so that the pinion is rotated in response to the pivoting movement of the lens mount.

Abstract: A camera body has an upper end provided with a slot and with a film chamber which is so dimensioned that it can receive an instant-picture film pack of rectangular shape in such an orientation that those narrow edges of the film sheets adjacent which each sheet has a compartment containing a supply of developer, are located beneath and adjacent to the film slot through which each exposed film sheet is expelled.

Abstract: The camera has a housing and a lens. A film transport mechanism is arranged in the housing. An operating element includes a member which is displaceable by a user in longitudinal direction of the optical axis of the lens and which, during at least part of such displacement, actuates the film transport mechanism. The operating element may include two of these members; if so, they are located at opposite lateral sides of the lens and are coupled so as to move in unison.

Abstract: A motion-picture camera has a housing provided with a chamber having a film compartment. A plate-shaped carrier is detachably mountable in this chamber and can carry one or two film cassettes, so that one cassette is located within and the other cassette is located without the film compartment. A movable cover closes an open side of the chamber.

Abstract: An accessory unit, for example an electronic flash unit, for use with photographic apparatus has a housing provided with one or more connecting elements for detachably connecting the unit to the apparatus. The housing has a through-going, essentially slot-shaped passage through which self-developing film sheets ejected from the apparatus can pass, or through which a strap or other retaining element of the camera can extend which holds the unit adjacent to the camera even when the unit is not in operative position, i.e. when the unit is detached from the photographic apparatus.

Abstract: A still camera has a housing adapted to hold a roll of film having a succession of frames. An openable shutter is provided on the housing alignable with the film and a takeup wheel in the housing is connectable to the roll of film and rotatable to wind the film up and displace the frames one-by-one past the shutter. A film-advance slide is displaceable on the housing between a pulled-out position projecting from the housing and a pushed-in position fitting snugly with the housing. A transmission and a one-way coupling are provided in the housing between the slide and the take-up wheel so that the take-up wheel is rotated to wind up the film only on displacement of the slide from the pushed-in position to the pulled-out position. Furthermore, a frame-sensing mechanism in the camera arrests displacement of the slide or a portion of the slide in the direction toward the pulled-out position when a fresh frame is properly aligned with the shutter.

Abstract: A motion picture camera with variable focal length lens wherein the zooming collar and the distance selecting or focusing collar on the lens barrel are rotatable to neutral positions by an actuating member which is movable at right angles to or in parallelism with the optical axis of the lens. In such neutral positions of the collars, the focal length of the lens is satisfactory for the making of exposures in daylight or artificial light, and the distance setting corresponds to a distance of 4 to 6 meters to thus guarantee an acceptable depth of field for exposures of subjects located anywhere between closeup and infinity. The actuating member can further close a master switch to allow for starting of the camera motor in immediate response to depression of the release trigger.

Abstract: A cinematographic camera has a housing composed of a main section which carries at its narrow front side a photographic lens, and a cover section which straddles the main section and is provided with a viewfinder. The main section can be telescoped into and out of the cover section and in so doing respectively blocks and unblocks the viewfinder. A handgrip is pivoted to the main section and can be displaced between a position in which it hugs the main section and overlies the photographic lens which it thereby protects, and a position in which it projects from the main section so that it can be gripped by a user.

Abstract: The camera has a shutter release, a shutter, a device responsive to activation of the release for performing a retarded opening of the shutter, and a device operative when activated for causing the shutter to close. The exposure duration is controlled by an exposure control circuit. When the scene brightness level is within a first range, the automatically selected exposure durations are so short that, during a substantial part of the exposure, the shutter is in the process of changing from its closed to its fully open state. When the scene brightness level is within a second range, the automatically selected exposure durations are so long that, during a substantial part of the exposure, the shutter will already be in its fully open state.

Abstract: A scene-pause counter, a scene-production counter, and a repetition counter are connected in a series. Each counter furnishes its count to an associated comparator which also receives a signal from an addressable read-only memory. Pulse trains are applied to the counters. When a comparator in the series detects coincidence, it initiates counting by the next counter. When the last comparator in the series detects coincidence it can restart the first counter. A program-selector switch causes different address signals to be applied to the memory, resulting in different operations of different durations, in different combinations and sequences. This makes possible projection or exposure of single frames or series of frames with intermediate pauses between the projection or exposure of successive frames or series of frames, as well as repetitions of such combinations of operations.

Abstract: A camera shutter has at least one diaphragm leaf which is mounted for angular displacement about a pivot axis. A cam element is mounted for rotation on the output shaft of a motor and is provided either with a planar surface formed with a spiral cam groove or with a conical surface formed with a conically spiral cam groove. A pin is fixed to the diaphragm leaf at a location laterally offset from the pivot axis and tracks the cam groove.