Camera
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorRyuichi Nagae
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a camera capable of reducing the size by reducing the range of movement of a view finder driving member which operates interlocked with an image-taking lens barrel. The camera includes an image-taking lens barrel which performs a operation in a collapse region and performs a zooming operation in an image-taking region, a view finder optical system including a movable lens unit and a view finder driving member having a cam which drives the movable lens unit. The image-taking lens barrel operates interlocked with the view finder driving member in the image-taking region and the interlock between the image-taking lens barrel and the view finder driving member is released in the collapse region.
Claims9
A camera comprising:
- an image-taking lens barrel which performs an operation in a collapse region and performs a zooming operation in an image-taking region;
- a view finder optical system including a movable lens unit;
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- a view finder driving member having a cam which drives the movable lens unit,
- wherein the image-taking lens barrel operates interlocked with the view finder driving member in the image-taking region, and the interlock between the image-taking lens barrel and the view finder driving member is released in the collapse region.
A camera comprising:
- an image-taking lens barrel which performs an operation between a collapse position and a first zoom position, and performs a zoom operation between the first position to a second position,
- a view finder optical system whose angle of view is changed in accordance with the zoom operation,
- wherein, during the zoom operation of the image-taking lens barrel from the first zoom position toward the second zoom operation, the change of angle of view of the view finder operation system starts from an intermediate position between the first and second zoom position.
A camera comprising:
- an image-taking lens barrel which performs an operation between a collapse position and a first zoom position, and performs a zoom operation between the first position to a second position,
- a view finder optical system whose angle of view is changed in accordance with the zoom operation,
- wherein, during the zoom operation of the image-taking lens barrel from the second zoom position toward the first zoom position, the change of the angle of view of the view finder optical system stops at an intermediate position between the second and first zoom position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.