Apparatus for establishing routine shot distance of taking lens in cameras
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorsFujio Enomoto, Ichiro Morimoto
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Abstract
An apparatus for establishing a routine shot distance of taking lens for camera which includes a lens protective cover is provided. The cover is movable between a first position in which it covers a taking lens and a second position in which it allows the taking lens to be exposed. An arrangement is provided for moving the taking lens to a position corresponding to a selected routine shot distance in response to the opening/closing movement of the lens protective cover. The position corresponding to a selected routine shot distance can be freely chosen.
Claims8
An apparatus for establishing a routine shot distance of a taking lens for a camera, comprising:
- a taking lens subject to a force-and-aft movement along an optical axis in response to a distance adjustment;
- a lens protective cover movable between a first position in which it covers the taking lens and a second position in which it allows the taking lens to be exposed;
- relay means for moving the taking lens to a position corresponding to a selected routine shot distance in response to the opening/closing movement of the protective cover;
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- means within said relay means for changing the position of the taking lens which corresponds to the routine shot distance independently of the position of the movable lens protective cover.
An apparatus for establishing a routine shot distance of a taking lens for a camera comprising:
- a taking lens mounted on said camera for movement along its optical axis to focus the camera for a predetermined shot distance;
- a lens protective cover movable between a first position covering said taking lens and a second position exposing said taking lens for permitting a photographing operation;
- first movable means for moving the taking lens to a position corresponding to one of a plurality of routine shot distances;
- lens adjusting means being moved responsive to mvoement of the lens protective cover to said first position;
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- coupling means for engageably coupling said lens adjusting means and said first means in one of a plurality of selective positions relative to one another for causing the lens adjusting means to move the taking lens to any one of a plurality of routine shot distances when the lens protective cover is moved to the first position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.