US 5,805,936 A · Instant camera

Abstract

A camera according to the present invention has an arrangement that a film is discharged to a side toward a subject after a picture has been taken, the instant camera comprising a grip portion formed on a right portion of a camera body when viewed in a normal photography state and from a position of a photographer operating the camera, an optical system disposed on a left portion of the camera body when viewed from the said position of the photographer and including at least a photographing lens, and a film cartridge loading portion which is capable of loading a film cartridge into a position between the grip portion of the camera body and the optical system in such a manner that an exposure surface of the film accommodated in the film cartridge faces the optical system.

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Dependent claims

An instant camera of a type causing light of a subject passed through a photographing lens to be reflected by a reflecting member so as to expose a film to light of the subject, said instant camera comprising:

a data imprinting optical system, at least a portion of which is disposed in a space adjacent to and outside of an an outer perimeter of said reflecting member and which lies within a space defined by an outer perimeter of a rectangular shaped film cartridge, said data imprinting optical system being disposed in such a manner that an optical axis of said data imprinting optical system is transverse to the exposure surface of the film when the camera is in a photographing position.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Instant camera

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Instant camera

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Abstract

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