Camera body and interchangeable lens
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorAkihiko Kawai
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Abstract
A camera body at which one or more camera accessories, at which light from a subject enters, are detachably mountable, includes: a body-side terminal; and a communication unit that communicates with at least one of the camera accessories, wherein: the communication unit requests, via the body-side terminal, the camera accessory for a discriminating signal indicating whether or not another camera accessory capable of communicating with the camera body is mountable on a subject side of the camera accessory.
Claims21
An accessory removably attachable to a camera body comprising:
- an accessory-side mount attachable to a body-side mount of a camera body;
- a reception unit that receives an instruction signal transmitted from the camera body, wherein:
- the instruction signal includes an identifier used to identify the accessory.
An accessory removably attachable to a camera body comprising:
- an accessory-side mount attachable to a body-side mount of a camera body;
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- a reception unit that receives a signal transmitted from the camera body, the signal includes an identifier used to identify the accessory and an instruction issued from the camera body, wherein:
- the identifier indicates the order of mounting the accessory from the body-side mount.
A camera body comprising:
- a mount to which camera accessories are detachably mountable;
- a communication unit capable of communicating with at least a first camera accessory that is mountable on the camera body, wherein:
- the communication unit transmits a first identifier used to identify the first camera accessory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.