Abstract: A camera shutter arrangement is provided. The camera shutter arrangement includes a motor. A pinion gear is operatively coupled to the motor. An integral paddle-gear member includes a paddle portion and a gear portion. The gear portion extends from the paddle portion and meshes with the pinion gear to move the paddle portion between a first position and a second position when the motor is energized.

Abstract: A shutter for use in a television camera, including: a casing having a first wall having a first opening formed therethrough for allowing incident light from a lens of the television camera to pass through the first opening and a second wall opposingly disposed to the first wall and having a second opening aligned to the first opening for allowing the incident light to pass through the second opening into a body of the television camera; a first disc member supported within the casing to be rotatable about an axis thereof and in parallel with the first and the second walls, the first disc member having a first shutter hole formed therethrough; a second disc member supported within the casing to be rotatable about an axis thereof and in parallel with the first and the second walls, the second disc member having a second shutter hole formed therethrough, the first disc member and the second disc member being disposed to overlap at overlapping areas at peripheries thereof with a gap, the first and second shutter

Abstract: This invention relates to a cinematographic camera and more particularly to a method of controlling operation of the cinematographic camera in accordance with a sequence of instructions programmed to carry out a photographic process. In order to carry out a plurality of operating modes by use of one and the same control circuit, the program is planed to include a plurality of different photographic process program sections along with a selection program for selection of any one of said process program sections.