Camera
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsAtsushi KOHASHI, Tomomi HIRANO, Hideki NAGATA, Hideru IKEDA
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Abstract
The invention makes it is possible to easily and precisely adjust the frame rate of continuous shooting photography, and to keep it constant for a long period of time. The invention provides a digital camera including an image-acquisition device for acquiring an image of a subject; a shutter control member operated in a direction along a front surface of a casing during continuous shooting photography; a sensor for detecting a control level or operating force of the shutter control member; and an overall controller for adjusting a frame rate of the continuous shooting photography performed by the image-acquisition device on the basis of the control level or operating force detected by the sensor.
Claims5
A camera comprising:
- an image-acquisition device configured to acquire an image of a subject;
- a shutter control member operated in a direction along a front surface of a casing during continuous shooting photography;
- a detector configured to detect a control level or operating force of the shutter control member;
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- a control unit configured to adjust a frame rate of the continuous shooting photography by the image-acquisition device on the basis of the control level or operating force detected by the detector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.