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US 4,956,665 AGranted
Framing apparatus for a medical scanning camera
AssigneePolaroid Corporation
InventorThomas J. Niles
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AssigneePolaroid Corporation
InventorThomas J. Niles
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Hand held compact apparatus, e.g. a camera, for photographically copying a portion of an illuminated image includes a member that enables a camera operator to accurately frame and/or preview a portion of the image prior to its exposure, a portion that becomes blocked from view when the camera is placed in its exposure position. In operation a camera operator places the framing and/or previewing member in direct contact with a selected portion of a backlighted film transparency, prior to its exposure. When framing and/or previewing is complete, the operator rotates the pivotally attached camera into its image copying or exposure position. An opening through the framing and/or previewing member and an opening in the camera housing through which the image must pass for image copying purposes become mechanically aligned with one another when the camera is rotated into its exposure position, thereby enabling an accurately framed photograph of the selected transparency portion to result.
Photograhic apparatus for precisely selecting copying a portion of an illuminated image, comprising:
A method of precisely framing a selected portion of an illuminated image with a photographic camera of the type having a housing that includes an opening for the passage of image-carrying light therethrough, which camera functions by placing the housing opening in an exposure position over the selected image portion where it obsecures the view thereof by a camera operator during the subsequent photographic copying thereof, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.