Interchangeable-lens camera
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsHideki Nagata, Minoru Omaki, Hirofumi Tsuchida, Toshiyuki Nagaoka
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Abstract
An interchangeable-lens camera including a camera body on which a lens unit is capable to mount. The camera body includes a lens mounting unit which is provided to the camera body and on which the lens unit is capable to mount at least one dummy mounting unit which is provided to the camera body and on which a device is capable to mount under the same lens mounting system as the lens mounting unit, and a processing unit for reading information about the lens unit mounted to the lens mounting unit; and the processing unit for reading information about the device mounted to the dummy mounting unit.
Claims9
An interchangeable-lens camera on which a lens unit is capable to mount, the interchangeable-lens camera comprising:
- a camera body;
- wherein
- a lens mounting unit which is provided to the camera body and on which the lens unit is capable to mount,
- at least one dummy mounting unit which is provided to the camera body and on which a device is capable to mount under the same lens mounting system as the lens mounting unit;
- a first information reading means for reading information about the lens unit mounted to the lens mounting unit;
- and
- a second information reading means for reading information about the device mounted to the dummy mounting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.