Automatic focus control camera
AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuaki Akada, Norio Ishikawa, Takeshi Egawa, Nobuyuki Taniguchi
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Abstract
In an automatic focus control camera capable of obtaining a focus control information during focus adjustment comprising focus control information obtaining means requiring a time between the sensing of the focus condition and the generation of data indicative of the necessary degree of focus adjustment, and modifying means for modifying the data with a degree of focus adjustment expected to occur with a predetermined speed during the time, there is provided means for interrupting the operation of the obtaining means and the modifying means for a period beginning from the initiation of focus adjustment.
Claims5
An interchangeable objective lens with a diaphragm aperture which can be selectively mounted to a camera body having a focus condition detecting means and an effective aperture value with the diaphragm aperture fully open can be variable in accordance with the movement of at least a part of said interchangeable objective lens, comprising:
- means for enabling communication between said camera body and the interchangeable objective lens;
- means for outputting, irrespective of the actual movement of said interchangeable objective lens, a signal indicative of the maximum of the variable effective aperture value with the diaphragm aperture fully open, and
- means for transmitting to said camera body the signal output from said outputting means.
In a camera having an interchangeable objective lens with a diaphragm aperture, means for obtaining information necessary for focus control by means of sensing focus condition through the diaphragm aperture of said interchangeable objective lens, means for comparing a signal indicative of an aperture value of said interchangeable objective lens with a limit signal indicative of a limit aperture value peculiar to said obtaining means for successfully sensing the focus condition through the diaphragm aperture, and means for prohibiting the function of said obtaining means when the aperture value indicated by the signal is greater than the limit aperture value indicated by the limit signal, an improvement of said interchangeable objective lens in which the effective aperture value with the diaphragm aperture fully open is variable in accordance with the movement of at least a part of said interchangeable objective lens along the optical axis thereof, comprising:
- means for outputting, independently from the actual movement of the interchangeable objective lens, a signal indicative of the maximum of the variable effective aperture value with the diaphragm aperture fully open, and
- means for forwarding the signal to said comparing means for comparison with the limit signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.