Single reflex camera with an optoelectronic distance meter mounted in the vicinity of the view finder eyepiece

A photographic or electronic camera with an optoelectronic distance measuring system, comprising:

• a picture-taking focal plane and lens means spaced therefrom in a path of rays of an object and having two partial aperture diaphragm means associated therewith for creating first and second partial bundles of rays corresponding to first and second images of the object which are to be projected onto two linear image sensors, each having a plurality of sensor elements;
• an evaluating circuit means connected to the image sensors and which in dependence upon varying position displacements of images and their corresponding sensor signals obtained from the one image sensor with respect to sensor signals obtained from the other image sensor determines a maximum correlation between the signals and an associated position displacement with a corresponding electrical value being formed indicative of distance of the object from the camera;
• device means for selectively deflecting the ray path at least partially to a view finder for single reflex operation;
• between said device means and the view finder a condensing lens;
• an eyepiece of the view finder;
• two focusing lens parts arranged in a path of rays of the eyepiece of the view finder, said lens parts locating the partial aperture diaphragms and associated first and second partial bundles of rays;
• and in a path of said partial bundles of rays which penetrate said lens parts, deflection element means being provided which deflect the paths of rays onto the image sensors.