Remote camera viewfinder
AssigneeCine-Tech, Inc.
InventorRichard Lerner
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Abstract
A remote camera viewfinder has a fiber optic bundle with a fitting at one end adapted to attach to the eyepiece of a camera and a fitting at the other end for allowing a photographer to see through the fiber optic bundle. The camera end fitting has a lens for focusing the image onto the focal plane of the fiber optic bundle. The other fitting includes a lens adjacent to the end of the fiber optic bundle to magnify the image transmitted through the bundle and also includes an eyecup mounted to a helmet or headgear arrangement which holds the eyecup adjacent to the photographer's eye allowing both hands free for manipulation of the camera.
Claims6
A remote camera viewfinder comprising:
- a fiber optic bundle of determinate length;
- means for mounting one end of said bundle to the eyepiece of a camera, said mounting means including an adjustable lens for focusing the image from the camera eyepiece onto the adjacent end of the fiber optic bundle;
- and
- viewing means on the other end of said bundle for allowing a photographer to see through said bundle into the eyepiece of the camera from a position remote from said eyepiece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.