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AssigneePENTAX Corporation
InventorsYukio Uenaka, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Masahiro Kawasaki
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A camera system having a camera body and a photographing lens, which can be mounted to and dismounted from the camera body, includes a determining device which determines a type of the photographing lens in accordance with data received from the photographing lens; and a body controller which has a function to send body data and individual function data to the photographing lens, wherein each of the individual function data is required for a corresponding function that the photographing lens possesses. The body controller sends all the body data to the photographing lens regardless of the type of the photographing lens, and sends a portion of the individual function data which is associated with the type of the photographing lens to the photographing lens.
A camera system having a camera body and a photographing lens which can be mounted to and dismounted from said camera body, wherein said camera body comprises:
The camera system according to claim 3, wherein said photographing lens comprises a lens controller, which can communicate with said body controller, wherein said lens controller sends lens type data, which indicates said type of said photographing lens, to said camera body.
A camera body, to which a photographing lens can be mounted and dismounted, comprising:
A photographing lens which can be mounted to, and dismounted from, a camera body, said camera body having a body controller which has a function to send body data and individual function data to said photographing lens, wherein each of said body data indicates an operating status of said camera body, and wherein each of said individual function data is required for a corresponding function that said photographing lens possesses, said photographing lens comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.