Lens shutter type of camera with a retractable strobe
AssigneeAsahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorIchiro Taguchi
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Abstract
A lens shutter type of camera with a retractable strobe device has a rectangular camera body with one side longer than the other. A mechanism pops the retractable strobe out from the shorter side of the camera body to an operative position. A mechanism varies an illuminating angle of the retractable strobe device in accordance with a zooming operation of a zoom photographing lens when the strobe device is in the operative position. The popping out mechanism and the illuminating angle varying mechanism are arranged such that the retractable strobe device pops out from the shorter side surface of the camera.
Claims16
A lens shutter type of camera with a retractable strobe device, said camera comprising:
- a camera body having a rectangular solid shape having longer side surfaces and shorter side surfaces between front and back surfaces;
- a photographing optical system including a zoom photographing lens;
- means for popping-out said retractable strobe from said camera body to an operative position;
- a driving mechanism of said zoom photographing lens for performing a zooming operations;
- means for varying an illuminating angle of said retractable strobe device, said illuminating angle varying means including a driving member being disposed to be driven in accordance with said driving mechanism of said zoom photographing lens, and a zoom lever pivotally mounted on a predetermined stationary portion of said camera body and engaging said driving member such that said zoom lever rotates in a plane parallel with said longer side surfaces;
- said popping-out means and said illuminating angle varying means are disposed so that said retractable strobe device pops-out from one of shorter said side surfaces of said camera;
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- said zoom lever being arranged to contact said popping-out means so that said zoom lever moves to vary an illumination angle of said strobe device in accordance with said driving mechanism of said zoom photographing lens only when said retractable strobe device is in said operative position.
A lens shutter type of camera with a retractable strobe device, said camera comprising:
- a camera body;
- a photographing optical system including a zoom photographing lens;
- means for popping-out said retractable strobe from said camera body to an operative position;
- a driving mechanism of said zoom photographing lens in accordance with a zooming operation;
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- means for varying an illuminating angle of said retractable strobe device, said illuminating angle varying means including a driving member being disposed to be driven in accordance with said driving mechanism of said zoom photographing lens, and a zoom lever being pivotable on a predetermined stationary portion of said camera body and engaging said driving member;
- said popping-out means and said illuminating angle varying means being disposed so that said retractable strobe device pops-out in the film winding direction;
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- said zoom lever being disposed to contact said popping-out means so that said zoom lever moves to vary an illumination angle of said strobe device in accordance with said driving mechanism of said zoom photographing lens only when said retractable strobe device is in said operative position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.