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Reflex camera light detecting arrangement

US4064516A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 10, 1976
Grant dateDec 20, 1977
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Expiry dateMar 10, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B19/12
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A light detecting system for a single lens reflex camera in which an image of the focusing screen is reflected to the normally unused surface of the pentaprism from a partially reflective surface in the viewfinder system. The reflective surface in one form may be glass-to-air interfaces on the viewfinder axis in the eyepiece, but also may be a thin partially reflecting coating.

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