Abstract: A camera having a metallic front cover comprises a plastic inner cover to mount the front cover to a main body. The inner cover is provided with a step wall. Height of the step wall is more than thickness of the front cover. A pair of hollows are formed in the step wall. A pair of engaging projections are provided on an edge of the front cover. The front cover is attached to the inner cover by fitting the engaging projection into the hollow so that the front cover is adapted to be not lifted up from the inner cover.

Abstract: A camera equipped with a compact mechanism for loading or unloading film cassettes, has an R fork that transmits a drive force to the spool shaft of a film cassette in a cassette compartment so as to rotate the spool shaft in a predetermined direction. The cassette compartment is such that two opposite end faces in the axial direction of the spool are generally of the same size as two opposite end faces of the loaded film cassette and the R fork is urged in such a direction that it protrudes into the cassette compartment along the spool shaft and that it is capable of movement between two positions, one being where it protrudes into the cassette compartment and the other being where it retracts therefrom.

Abstract: The photographic camera has a watertight housing (11, 12) in which a film transport and guide mechanism, a taking lens (15), a viewfinder (16), as well as a flash unit are accommodated. The novel and inventive step consists in that an integral support member (14) is provided which is connected with housing (11, 12) in a watertight manner and into which the taking lens (15), the viewfinder lens (16) as well as the diffusion screen (17) of the flash unit are all integrated.

Abstract: A camera having a front cover made of metal comprises a plastic inner cover to mount the front cover to a main body. The inner cover is provided with a grip portion integrally formed therewith. The grip portion is exposed to the outside and protrudes from the front cover forwardly. Further, a surface of the grip portion is molded with plural ridges for anti-slipping. The grip portion made of plastic has advantages, in comparison with a grip covered with the metal front cover, in prevention of slipping and cost for producing the camera.

Abstract: A camera whose body is wound with a belt-like protective cover having an end detachably held by pin members thereon in such a manner as to cover a wall surface thereof. The protective cover is operative to cover and protects at least a photographing lens, a distance measuring or range finder window and a stroboscopic window. Thus, the camera is put into an enclosed state. Further, the enclosed state, in which the protective cover is wound around the body of the camera, is maintained by fitting a magnet hook attached to the other end of the protective cover into another magnet hook attached to the body of the camera and making these magnet hooks attracted to each other. Moreover, when putting the camera into a ready-to-photograph state, the protective cover is unwound by removing the magnet hooks from each other and opening the photographing lens and so on.

Abstract: A camera having a strobe and a strobe condenser electrically connected to the strobe. The strobe condenser consists of a plurality of condensers, some of which are accommodated in a grip portion integrally formed with a camera body of the camera. The remainder of the plurality of condensers are accommodated outside the grip portion in the camera body.

Abstract: A mechanism, for feeding a film with a photographing information magnetic recording area, of a camera. The camera including the mechanism has a cartridge holder inside which a film cartridge housing the film in is set; an aperture for defining an exposure field on the film; a magnetic head for writing/reading the photographing information; a take-up spool around which the film fed from the film cartridge is wound; and a drive motor for feeding the film between the film cartridge and the take-up spool. Both the take-up spool and the magnetic head are installed on one side of the aperture, and both the cartridge holder and the drive motor are installed on the other side, opposite to the one side in view of the film feeding direction, of the aperture.

Abstract: A camera according to the present invention has an arrangement that a film is discharged to a side toward a subject after a picture has been taken, the instant camera comprising a grip portion formed on a right portion of a camera body when viewed in a normal photography state and from a position of a photographer operating the camera an optical system disposed on a left portion of the camera body when viewed from the said position of the photographer and including at least a photographing lens, and a film cartridge loading portion which is capable of loading a film cartridge into a position between the grip portion of the camera body and the optical system in such a manner that an exposure surface of the film accommodated in the film cartridge faces the optical system.

Abstract: A cover of an apparatus is composed of a metal part and a synthetic resin molded part. An edge part of the metal part located at a boundary between these cover parts is subjected to a brightening cutting process such as diamond cutting which gives a color tone different from the colors of these cover parts, so that a difference in color between the two cover parts can be made to be less conspicuous.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises a cartridge chamber into which a film cartridge is loaded in the direction of its longitudinal axis, an eject member that can move between a housing position, at which the film cartridge loaded in the film cartridge chamber is held inside the film cartridge chamber, and a take-out position, at which the film cartridge that is loaded is projected out through an insertion opening of the cartridge chamber, a connecting member than can move between a connecting position at which the eject member located at the housing position is prevented from moving to the take-out position and a connection release position at which the eject member is allowed to move to the take-out position, and an indicating mechanism that indicates whether or not the film cartridge is loaded inside the cartridge chamber with the movement of the connecting member.

Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit equipped with a built-in electronic flash device having a printed wiring board, formed with a flash circuit thereon and an aperture therein, which is located between a film roll receiving chamber located on one side of an exposure mechanism unit and a front casing section so as to receive partly the film roll receiving chamber in the aperture.

Abstract: An electronic part, specifically a red-eye prevention lamp, is suspended in a gap between immediately adjacent curved internal walls of a camera. The curved internal walls are those of a battery compartment and a film storage compartment. The red-eye prevention lamp is suspended by a control circuit board bridging the curved walls.

Abstract: A small size camera assembly or micro-intelligent eye of the invention is formed of a spherical member operating as a rotor, a camera body embedded in the spherical member, and a driving device attached to the spherical member for rotating the same. The camera body has a front end and is situated on a diametrical line of the spherical member such that the front end is disposed at least on an outer surface of the spherical member. The driving device and the spherical member constitute a spherical supersonic motor, so that the spherical member can be smoothly moved as desired.

Abstract: A camera includes a frame having a movably attached film engaging member including a metering pawl for engaging a contained filmstrip. A light locking cover attached to the frame prevents ambient light from entering a defined light tight enclosure surrounding the film engaging member with the exception of an opening to allow a locking portion of a second movable lever within the lighttight enclosure for engaging the film engaging member. The lever includes an integral light locking portion adjacent the locking portion which blocks the opening of the first light locking cover but allows the locking portion to engage the film engaging member. The access opening of the light locking cover is sufficiently large to allow pivoting movement of the locking portion, the cover preferably including a recess to allow the light blocking portion of the lever to effectively cover the opening in a lighttight manner.

Abstract: A camera loading chamber into which a film cartridge is loaded by dropping the cartridge into an opening of the camera against the urging force of an urging member. The film cartridge is held within the loading chamber by a trapdoor which is closed over the loaded cartridge and held in its closed position by a locking mechanism. Upon releasing the locking mechanism, the cartridge is urged toward the exterior of the camera and causes the trapdoor to open under the urging force of the urging member. A stopping member causes the trapdoor to stop at a position between its closed position and its fully open position so that the cartridge is prevented from jumping out of the cartridge loading chamber.

Abstract: A camera, an apparatus, or a device applied thereto which uses an image recording medium cartridge having a cover for allowing an image recording medium to come out from or in the image recording medium cartridge, has determination means for determining at least one of a state wherein the cover of the cartridge loaded in the camera or apparatus allows entrance of light into the cartridge and a state wherein the cover of the cartridge clamps the image recording medium, and regulating means for regulating at least one of recording an image on the image recording medium and obtaining a print of an image recorded on the image recording medium in accordance with a determination result of the determination means.

Abstract: A translatable cover coupled to a lighttight camera body is movable between a cantilevered open position and a closed position relative to the body. Guide pins provided on different surfaces of the upper part of the cover interior engage longitudinal slots on the exterior of the camera body to allow a smooth sliding motion of the cover. Preferably, the guide pins include shoulders having a greater diameter than the remainder of the pin to minimize torquing of the cover when translated in combination with a lower cover portion which extends from an open end and engages the lower portion of the body to also minimize cantilevering of the cover. In another preferred embodiment, a guide arm extending from the free end can engage a sleeve of the body to minimize cantilevering and torquing while allowing a smooth travel of the cover with fairly loose tolerances.

Abstract: A camera having a cartridge compartment therein loaded with a film cartridge having a spool shaft projecting from an upper portion of the film cartridge. A switch is located in a space formed by an upper surface of the film cartridge, a side surface of the projecting portion of the spool shaft and an internal wall of the cartridge compartment. An operating member contacts the switch to operate the switch. The operating member partially projects from the camera back surface and is partially inserted into and operatively positioned in the space. The operating member is conveniently placed at a position on the camera surface for easy operation. Therefore, the switch is easily and conveniently operated and effective utilization of the internal space of the camera is employed to obtain a smaller size camera.

Abstract: A camera including a built-in strobe light generating unit having a strobe capacitor and a red-eye reduction lamp to reduce red-eye phenomenon. The red-eye reduction lamp is positioned between the strobe light generating unit and the strobe capacitor. The strobe capacitor, red-eye reduction lamp and the strobe light generating unit are arranged in the vertical direction within the camera body. To provide a compact camera, the red-eye reduction lamp is located above the strobe capacitor in a space between a pair of terminals projecting from the strobe capacitor, and below the strobe light generating unit, in a cut-away portion of a strobe reflector.

Abstract: A camera with a built-in flash light unit has a light shielding barrel of truncated cone shape and a stepped film cartridge chamber. The light shielding barrel is disposed to shield an optical path between a photographic lens at a front of the camera and a film plane at a rear of the camera, the smaller end of the truncated cone residing at the photographic lens. The cartridge chamber is provided at one side of the light shielding barrel and encloses a film cartridge having a cylinder for including a film wound therein and a feed step tangentially projecting out from a circumference of the cylinder for film feed therefrom. The cartridge chamber has a predetermined rear-to-front dimension and comprises a first room defined by a curved wall shaped to fit the cylinder and a second room connected to the first room and defined by a wall shaped to fit the feed step. The light shielding barrel and both of the cartridge chamber walls define a space between the cartridge chamber and the light shielding barrel.

Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit has a main body and front and rear covers attached thereto and sandwiching the main body between them. The main body is preloaded with photographic film, and provided with a shutter device and a taking lens. The shutter device is constituted of a single shutter blade, a shutter base on which the shutter blade is swingably mounted, a shutter cover disposed in front of the shutter blade, and a coil tension spring for biasing the shutter blade toward a closed position. The coil tension spring has one end connected to a projection on the shutter blade, and the other end connected to a pin on the shutter base. The projection on the shutter blade is received in an opening in the shutter cover. The opening is superposed with an access opening in the front cover, so that the shutter blade can be forcibly shifted from a closed position to an open position when the front cover is attached to the main body.

Abstract: A cartridge holder engages with a cartridge holder driving gear driven by a driving force of an ejecting motor. The ejecting motor is controlled by a microcomputer so that ejecting is performed in succession to the completion of the rewinding of the film.

Abstract: A camera casing structure for fixing thereto a tripod connecting member. A camera structure is described with a front cover having an inverted U-shaped first supporting member including a fitting hole in the direction of an optical axis and a semi-circular recess; a rear cover having an inverted U-shaped second supporting member including a fitting hole in the direction of the optical axis and a semi-circular recess; and a tripod connecting member having a substantially cylindrical member including an inner female threaded screw hole and partial flanges symmetrically protruding on opposite sides of the peripheral surface of the substantially cylindrical member for fitting. The flanges fit into the fitting holes, respectively, so that the tripod connecting member can be nipped and fixed by the first and second supporting members.

Abstract: A cam cylinder is extended from a base member of a holder and is inserted into a guide cylinder secured to a main body. A lens mount including an optical system and a CCD is inserted into the cam cylinder. A guide pin is screwed on the lens mount through a guide groove of the guide cylinder and a cam groove of the cam cylinder. When the holder is rotated around the optical axis, the lens mount can move along the optical axis, so that a distance between the CCD and a film held by the holder is changed. As a result, by only rotating the holder, the magnification for displaying the image can be changed.

Abstract: A camera body adapted for use in a single lens reflex (SLR) camera which has a mirror box associated therewith and a mount to removably mount and slidably adjust the placement of the mirror box. The mount allows the mirror box to be slid in a plane which is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of a photographic lens and the light received thereby. Additionally, a camera body includes a front portion having a mount to affix a photographic lens, and a rear portion having a rail system for allowing a photosensitive film to travel within the rail system. The front portion and the rear portion are integrally formed. Finally, a camera body includes an aperture and related shutter insertion and removal mechanism for allowing easy access to a shutter mechanism of a camera without having to disassemble the camera.

Abstract: A camera has either a built-in flash unit or a removable attachable flash unit which is turnable between a retracted position and a projected position and which is provided with an illumination-angle varying mechanism. The camera includes a motor, disposed in a body of the camera, for driving the illumination-angle varying mechanism, and a transmission system, which transmits an output rotation of the motor to the illumination-angle varying mechanism. The transmission system includes a rotating wheel which has a central axis coincident with a turning axis of the flash unit. The flash unit may include a structure divided into at least three areas: a middle area, a first side area, and a second side area. A flash generating device is disposed in the middle area; a red-eye prevention lamp is disposed in the first side area; and a drive transmissions system for driving the illumination-angle varying mechanism is provided in the second side area.

Abstract: A lens shutter camera has light emitting and receiving sections for obtaining distance information. An optical section for performing photometry in an object field is disposed in a space between the light emitting and receiving sections in an optical axis direction. An electric plate passes the space between the light emitting and receiving sections in the optical axis direction and electrically connects a shutter section provided in a lens barrel and a control section provided outside the lens barrel.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for closing a camera body of a type including a housing (10) for internal camera components, the housing including a cover part (12) and another part (14); and a plurality of fastener pairs (54, 56; 60, 62) extending between said parts, each fastener pair including a hook (54, 56) and a catch (60, 62) including an opening (64) for engaging a tip (56') of the hook. The apparatus may include a frame 162); a gripper (166-186) supported by the frame, the gripper having a pair of tines (170, 172) separated by a slot (174) for receiving the tip of the hook, a least one of the tines being configured (176-186) to engage an edge of the opening during insertion of the gripper into the opening, whereby said at least one tine is caused to flex into contact with the tip of the hook to grip the tip between said tines; and a cutter (188-192) supported by the frame, said the having a cutting edge (190) extended across the slot for severing the tip from the hook. A method of use also is taught.

Abstract: A camera which has an exterior component formed into one piece from a leather material and a resin material. Further, on a surface portion of this exterior component, a groove having a depth in a direction nearly normal or perpendicular thereto is formed in a border line portion between the leather material and the resin material. Moreover, in a mold for forming the exterior component, a projection portion is formed to cut the groove which serves as a positioning means for positioning the leather material therein.

Abstract: Apparatus (90) is disclosed for opening a camera of a type including a front cover part (12) and a back cover part (14), each of the front cover part and the back cover part having a top wall (34, 42) and a bottom wall (36, 44) and first and second opposite end walls (38, 40; 46, 48); and a plurality of cooperating fastener pairs extending between the cover parts. There may be a first cooperating fastener pair (54, 60) extending between the top walls; a second cooperating fastener pair (56, 62) extending between the bottom walls; a third cooperating fastener pair (72, 74, 75) extending between the first end walls; and a fourth cooperating fastener pair (72, 74, 76) extending between the second end walls.

Abstract: A camera includes a lighttight body portion and a cover having an interior recess sized for receiving an end of said body portion. The cover is coupled to the body portion and is movable in opposing directions between an opened position and a closed position. A portion of the body or the cover includes stop surfaces for preventing the cover from opening beyond the opening position which are deformable or detachable to allow the cover to be released from the body portion of the camera. Alternately, the cover can be part of a two part releasable assembly which can be separated either destructively or non-destructively from the camera.

Abstract: A photographic camera has a recording system which records an instruction on printing of each exposure frame of a photographic film in a predetermined area of a film. That a photographer's finger was resting on a strobe window of the camera during exposure of a frame under strobe light is detected, and when it is detected, the recording system records an instruction on printing of the exposed frame taking into account the fact that the frame was exposed under strobe light with a photographer's finger resting on the strobe window.

Abstract: A photographic camera has a magazine chamber in which a film magazine is loaded, a film take-up chamber and a lens barrel unit which supports a taking lens system and is disposed between the magazine chamber and the film take-up chamber. A film feed mechanism includes a film take-up spool which is disposed in the film take-up chamber and is provided therein with a film feed motor, a film rewind spindle disposed in the magazine chamber to be drivingly engaged with the film spool of the film magazine loaded in the magazine chamber and a gear train for transmitting the driving force of the film feed motor to the film rewind spindle. A part of the feed gears in the gear train is supported on a supporting portion formed on a part of a stationary lens barrel of the lens barrel unit.

Abstract: A compact camera apparatus having an improved display device and circuit mounting board layout within the camera body in relationship to other components to achieve a more compact and efficient space camera utilization. In one embodiment of the camera, a display unit is located on the upper surface of the camera body, and has a portion thereof, such as its drive mechanism at least partially positioned in a space formed between a light projection unit and light receiving of the camera's rangefinder device. In another embodiment, the camera has a mounting board of the required size for holding constituent control circuit components of the camera located in the camera body with attention to the location of the board in relationship to the cartridge compartment and other camera components to provide for a more compact design.

Abstract: In a film unit, a front surface of a unit body is made convex so as to corresponds to a curve of possible swelling of a substantially rectangular outer case so that the outer case, which is formed by folding along straight lines, is kept in tight contact with the unit body. For a unit body having a grip on one side of a front surface thereof, two curved folding lines are provided on a front wall of an outer case along a portion corresponding to a step to the front surface to the grip of the unit body. The curved folding lines are folded in opposite directions to each other to form a step in accordance with the step between the grip and the front surface.

Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit has a main body and front and rear covers attached thereto and sandwiching the main body between them. The main body is preloaded with photographic film, and provided with a shutter device and a taking lens. The shutter device is constituted of a single shutter blade, a shutter base on which the shutter blade is swingably mounted, a shutter cover disposed in front of the shutter blade, and a coil tension spring for biasing the shutter blade toward a closed position. The coil tension spring has one end connected to a projection on the shutter blade, and the other end connected to a pin on the shutter base. The projection on the shutter blade is received in an opening in the shutter cover. The opening is superposed with an access opening in the front cover, so that the shutter blade can be forcibly shifted from a closed position to an open position when the front cover is attached to the main body.

Abstract: An easy loading camera comprising a cartridge receiving chamber for receiving a film cartridge with a protruding film leader, and a leader insertion slit beginning at the cartridge receiving chamber, is characterized by a leader guide supported in a guiding position within the cartridge receiving chamber to guide the protruding film leader into the leader insertion slit before the film cartridge is loaded into the chamber and to be moved to a retracted position to make room for the film cartridge when the film cartridge is loaded into the chamber. Preferably, the leader guide is located in its leader guiding position for the film cartridge to push the leader guide out of the way as the film cartridge is loaded into the cartridge receiving chamber.

Abstract: A telephotographic optical system is incorporated into a mechanism unit with an exposure mechanism, and the mechanism unit is removably attached to a main body having a cassette chamber and a film roll chamber as an integral body. The telephotographic optical system is constituted by a telephotographic taking lens, and a pair of mirrors attached to an exposure chamber so as to conduct light entering through the taking lens along a Z-shaped light path toward an exposure aperture. A lens aperture changing mechanism is also incorporated in the mechanism unit. A switching member of the lens aperture changing mechanism is disposed on an upper wall portion of the film unit. An aperture-stop member having at least a lens aperture is moved by the switching member so as to place the lens aperture in the exposure light path.

Abstract: A shield for protecting camera equipment has a hood and a support. The hood is open at a forward end and an aft end and has a self-supporting shape. The support is adapted to be attached to the camera equipment and can support the hood. The hood extends from the support to shield the camera equipment fore and aft of said support means.

Abstract: A camera comprises a taking lens having an integral collar, a main body portion including a rigid fixed lens-support for the taking lens, and a front cover portion for the main body portion including an integral lens-surround arranged at least opposite the collar to leave a space between the lens-surround and the collar. The lens-surround can be forcibly depressed into the space towards the taking lens. The resilient lens-retaining means, interconnects the lens-surround and the collar within the space, for urging the taking lens against the lens-support and for providing increased resistance when the lens-surround is forcible depressed into the space to prevent the lens-surround from disturbing the taking lens.

Abstract: Guide rails for positioning a film are formed on a shutter block. The guide rails project through an opening in a thin back plate of a camera body to regulate the position of a film drawn from a film cartridge chamber into a spool chamber. A frame aperture formed in the shutter block regulates the exposable area of a frame of film. The shutter block is fixable to a box-shaped mirror housing, which is then fixed to the camera body and a supporting plate.

Abstract: By attaching a camera cover to an existing camera, user can take a photograph of himself or herself with an intended camera angle, scope and timing. A camera cover body, which comprises the camera cover to be removably attached to a camera, has a front portion covering a front side of the camera. The front portion is formed in a shape of a convex spherical surface and has an aperture in a position corresponding to a lens of the camera. A reflecting layer is formed on an inside of the front portion by aluminum evaporation, etc. The whole part of the front portion structures a convex mirror.

Abstract: A portion of a frame of film is pre-exposed to a first image by subjecting the film to a low intensity exposure while masking a portion of the film. The film is then used in a conventional camera along with a non-opaque exposure limiting device. The non-opaque exposure limiting device is positioned between the camera lens and the film. During exposure of the film to a second or target image, the first image is partially re-exposed thereby enhancing the stability of the picture while capturing the target image on the unexposed portion of the frame of film. The two images are then developed in a conventional manner to produce a relatively smoothly blended composite photograph.

Abstract: A photographic camera having an exposure frame at the rear end of a lens barrel. A camera body is molded integrally with the lens barrel. Flanks are formed by a pair of vertical surfaces lying in planes parallel to the optical axis on inner surfaces of the frame receiving surface at locations that define four corners of an exposure aperture so as to extend radially outward from the inner surface of the lens barrel adjacent the rear end thereof. An aperture frame is detachably mounted on the camera body from behind the camera to define the exposure aperture. The flanks formed adjacent the rear end of the lens barrel or the frame receiving surface are effective to prevent individual frames of film from being subjected to undesirable vignetting. The aperture frame is mounted on the camera body from behind. A pair of masking plates is provided for panoramic photography.

Abstract: A camera comprising a photographic optical system; an aperture formed behind the photographic optical system in order to limit a range of subject light irradiated to a film surface; a cartridge chamber lying on one side of the aperture so as to accommodate a small-sized film cartridge containing film that is smaller than rolled film of 35 mm width, in which a film cartridge is stowed so that a built-in take-up axis thereof is oriented substantially in parallel with the height of the camera; a take-up chamber lying on the other side of the aperture so as to wind in a portion of film that has been fed from the film cartridge stowed in the cartridge chamber in the lateral direction of the camera and has passed behind the aperture; a light projecting optical system lying above the take-up chamber to distribute light to be used for range finding toward an object to be photographed; and a light receiving optical system lying below the take-up chamber to receive light having emanated from the light projecting optica

Abstract: A camera equipped with a device, for photoelectrically detecting perforations formed in a film margin, which comprises two elements, one of which is disposed in a space with at least one end slope formed between inner and outer film guide rails so as to keep a film traveling across the back of the camera away and isolated from coming into contact with the element.

Abstract: A display package assembly comprising a main closed portion housing a camera, and another closed portion housing a consumable such as a film cartridge and/or one or more batteries, is characterized in that the main portion housing the camera is permanently sealed to prevent removal of the camera from the main portion without breaking open the main portion, and the other portion housing the consumable has a removable cover to permit the other portion to be opened and re-closed to replace the consumable without breaking open the other portion.

Abstract: A camera including a viewfinder having an objective lens with a first optical axis, and an eyepiece lens with a second optical axis. The objective lens and the eyepiece lens create an offset space in the camera because the lenses are located such that their optical axes differ. Components within the camera are mounted on a printed board positioned adjacent to the viewfinder such that the electrical components are located in the offset space. The camera is smaller in size because the space due to the offset portion of the viewfinder is efficiently utilized.

Abstract: The invention concerns a flange back mechanism for a single-lens reflex camera which has a structure permitting an image- forming surface to be moved in a distance-reducing direction further from a reference flange back position commonly defined for various interchangeable lens, to provide an ultra infinity position. By merely placing a distance ring of an interchangeable lens in the vicinity of infinity, AF response from the closest distance to infinity becomes possible.

Abstract: A fire monitoring system for waste bunkers includes a pair of infrared cameras, which are arranged on an axis of rotation. The axis of rotation is connected to a controllable drive motor and to an angle transmitter. Furthermore, the fire monitoring system has a computer for digitizing the thermal images determined by the pair of infrared cameras and for calculating the spatial coordinates of hot places inside the waste bunker. The calculation of these hot places is carried out based on the thermal images determined by the pair of infrared cameras and digitized, and the data supplied by the angle transmitter.