US 6,714,728 B2Granted

Photographic mode selectable camera

AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

InventorsMitsuhiro Moriya, Takeshi Masuda, Nobuyuki Kameyama, Yuji Mikami, Fuminori Kawamura, Fumio Noji, Yutaka Senda

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Abstract

A lens-fitted photo film unit includes a flash unit for applying flash light to a photographic object. An exposure amount changer, such as an aperture stop changing mechanism, changes over object light incident on photo film from the object between low and high exposure amounts. For the lens-fitted photo film unit, a photographic mode selection device includes a movable selector, such as a button, for selectively designating a daylight mode, a daylight flash mode and a night flash mode. The movable selector, when the daylight mode is designated, determines the low exposure amount and turns off the flash unit, and when the daylight flash mode is designated, determines the low exposure amount and turns on the flash unit, and when the night flash mode is designated, determines the high exposure amount and turns on the flash unit.

Claims29

Dependent claims

A camera having a flash unit which emits flash light when set in an on-state, and keeps said flash light from being emitted when set in an off-state, said camera comprising:

a mode selection operable member for being set in a selected one of first, second and third set positions, wherein said mode selection operable member, when set in said first set position, sets a daylight mode for keeping said flash unit in said off-state for an exposure, and when set in said second set position, sets a daylight flash mode for keeping said flash unit in said on-state for an exposure, and when set in said third set position, sets a night flash mode for keeping said flash unit in said on-state for an exposure;
and
guide means for temporarily retaining said mode selection operable member in said second set position in moving said mode selection operable member from said first set position to said second set position, and for setting a second shift of said mode selection operable member discontinuous from a first shift thereof, wherein said first shift is defined between said first and second set positions, and said second shift is defined between said second and third set positions.

A camera having a flash unit which emits flash light when set in an on-state, and keeps said flash light from being emitted when set in an off-state, said camera comprising:

a first mode selection operable member for being set in a selected one of first and second set positions, wherein said first mode selection operable member, when set in said first set position, sets a daylight mode for keeping said flash unit in said off-state for an exposure, and when set in said second set position, sets a daylight flash mode for keeping said flash unit in said on-state for an exposure;
and
a second mode selection operable member for being set in a selected one of third and fourth set positions, wherein said second mode selection operable member, when set in said third set position, sets a night flash mode for keeping said flash unit in said on-state for an exposure, and when set in said fourth set position, resets said night flash mode, and causes execution of said daylight mode or said daylight flash mode determined according to said first mode selection operable member.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/439,191Filed 16 May 2003
Priority: JP 2002-14119216 May 2002
Published: US 2003/0215229 A120 Nov 2003
Granted: 30 Mar 2004
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G03B 19/04
Still-picture cameras: roll-film cameras
G03B 17/02
Details of cameras or camera bodies; Accessories therefor: bodies
G03B 2219/045
Roll-film cameras: adapted for unloading the film in the processing laboratory, e.g. disposable, reusable or recyclable cameras
G03B
Apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them