Patent · US Expired

Totally opened F. value information input system of lens for a camera with interchangeable lenses

US4118713A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 7, 1977
Grant dateOct 3, 1978
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Expiry dateApr 7, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B7/20
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

At the side of the camera body, switches for treating the totally opened F value information of the photographic lens as coded digital information of a certain determined number of bits are connected to the digital exposure operation circuit. At the side of each of the photographic lens which is made interchangeable for the camera body, a signal pin is arranged for indicating the totally opened F value proper to the photographic lens as coded digital information of the above mentioned determined number of bits in such a manner that at the time of mounting the photographic lens on the camera body, the switches at the side of the camera body are closed in selected combination in accordance with the totally opened F value of the lens. Accordingly the totally opened F value of the photographic lens is put into the digital exposure operation circuit.

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