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US 5,182,590 AGranted
Camera
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShoji Kaihara, Shousuke Haraguchi
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Abstract
A camera comprises a data imprinting device which is arranged to imprint data on the surface of film from a front side of an optical axis and is disposed between an aperture and a spool in a position to overlap with a focal plane shutter unit in the optical axis direction; a rotary member which is arranged to be rotated following the movement of the film surface and is disposed between the aperture and the spool; and a control part which is arranged to control the action of the imprinting device by detecting the amount of rotation of the rotary member.
Claims9
A camera comprising:
- a) a data imprinting device for imprinting data on a film surface from a front side of an optical axis, said data imprinting device being disposed between an aperture and a spool in a position to overlap with a focal plane shutter unit in the direction of said optical axis;
- b) a rotary member arranged to be rotated following the movement of said film surface, said rotary member being disposed between said aperture and said spool;
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- c) control means for controlling an action of said data imprinting device by detecting an amount of rotation of said rotary member.
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