US 6,611,663 B2Granted

Camera having variable magnification where light distribution angle and field angle are unchangeable during focusing

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorKazuo Nakagawa

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Abstract

The present invention provides a camera comprising a cam member having cam groves formed for moving lens units, where the cam groves alternately have variable power cam regions for moving the lens units for variable power and focusing cam regions for moving the lens units for focusing, an illumination device whose light distribution angle is changeable, and a finder device whose angle is changeable wherein the light distribution angle of the illumination device and the field angle of the finder device are changed while the lens units move in the variable power cam regions for variable power, and on the other hand, the light distribution angel of the illumination device and the field angle of the finder device are not changed while the lens units move in the focusing cam regions for focusing.

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Dependent claims

A camera comprising:

a cam member made with a cam groove for moving lens units, where the cam groove has alternately variable power cam regions for movements for variable power of the lens units and focusing cam regions for movements for focusing of the lens units;
an illumination device whose light distribution angle is changeable;
a finder device whose field angle is changeable;
an illumination device drive mechanism, which changes the light distribution angle of the illumination device while the lens units move in said variable power cam regions for variable power, and makes the light distribution angle of the illumination device unchangeable while the lens units move in said focusing cam regions for focusing;
and
a finder device drive mechanism, which changes the field angle of the finder device while the lens units move in said variable power cam regions for variable power, and makes the field angle of the finder device unchangeable while the lens units move in said focusing cam regions for focusing under interlocking with the drive of the cam member.

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A camera comprising:

a photographic optical system drive mechanism which carries out stepwise variable power and focusing of a photographic optical system at each variable power position by using a drive cam alternately having variable power drive cam regions and focusing drive cam regions;
a strobe light emitting part whose light distribution angle is changeable;
a finder optical system whose field angle is changeable;
a light distribution angle changing mechanism, which changes the light distribution angle of the strobe light emitting part under interlocking with variable power operations of the photographic optical system in the photographic optical system drive mechanism, and makes the light distribution angle of the strobe light emitting part unchangeable when the photographic optical system operates for focusing;
and
a field angle changing mechanism, which changes the field angle of the finder optical system under interlocking with variable power operations of the photographic optical system in the photographic optical system drive mechanism, and makes the field angle of the finder optical system unchangeable when the photographic optical system operates for focusing.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.