Photographic film conveying device

A photographic film conveying device which, while conveying along a film conveying path a strip-shaped photographic film on which images are recorded, reads the images of the photographic film by an image reading section, the photographic film conveying device comprising:

• a reading conveying section which conveys the photographic film along the film conveying path such that an image recorded region of the photographic film passes through an image reading position at which images are read by the image reading section;
• a film receiving section which receives the photographic film whose images have been read by the image reading section;
• a discharge conveying section which conveys the photographic film, whose images have been read by the image reading section, along the film conveying path such that the photographic film is discharged into the film receiving section;
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• an external disturbance preventing section which, at a time of image reading when the images of the photographic film are read by the image reading section, sets the discharge conveying section in a withdrawn state in which the discharge conveying section is withdrawn from the photographic film which is being conveyed by the reading conveying section, and which, after image reading of the photographic film is completed, sets the discharge conveying section in a conveying state in which conveying of the photographic film is possible.