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US 4,544,250 AGranted
Optical system for camera with a viewfinder
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuo Tanaka, Sadahiko Tsuji
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Abstract
A photographic optical system including a beam splitter for a finder is provided with a releasably attached extender in between the beam splitter and a focal plane, while the finder is provided with means for changing the magnification of an image thereof as the extender is inserted into, or retracted from, axial alignment to the optical system. The camera has, despite the addition of the magnification power changing capability along with the finder image magnification correcting capability, to be made small in the size and light in the weight.
Claims6
An optical system for a camera comprising:
- (a) a photographic optical system;
- (b) a finder optical system;
- (c) a beam splitter for dividing the light from said photographic optical system into two parts one of which goes to an image pickup plane of the camera and the other of which is directed to said finder optical system;
- (d) an image magnification changing optical system for changing the value of the focal length of said photographic optical system to another, said image magnification changing optical system being arranged to move into or retract from, an optical path between said beam splitter and the image pickup plane of the camera;
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- (e) a correction optical system for correcting the field of view of said finder optical system, said correction optical system being arranged to move in response to movement of said image magnification changing optical system, while changing the size of an image of said finder optical system.
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