Cinematographic camera

US4097133A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Otto Stemme · Munich, DE
• Peter Lermann · Feldkirchen-Westerham, DE
• Gabriele Ehgartner · Trostberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 28, 1977
• Grant date: Jun 27, 1978
• Expiry date: Feb 28, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03B19/18
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A cinematographic camera has a housing composed of a main section which carries at its narrow front side a photographic lens, and a cover section which straddles the main section and is provided with a viewfinder. The main section can be telescoped into and out of the cover section and in so doing respectively blocks and unblocks the viewfinder. A handgrip is pivoted to the main section and can be displaced between a position in which it hugs the main section and overlies the photographic lens which it thereby protects, and a position in which it projects from the main section so that it can be gripped by a user. An arrangement is provided whereby movement of the hand grip to the operating position results in release of the cover section for movement to its operating position and/or the forcible displacement to its operating position; the construction can also be such that it is the movement of the cover section to its operating position which releases the handgrip and/or effects forcible displacement of the same to the operating position thereof.