Camera with zoom lens

US4195924A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• AGFA-Gervaert AG · DE

Inventors

• Otto Stemme · Munich, DE
• Gunther Kirchhof · Taufkirchen, DE
• Peter Lermann · Feldkirchen-Westerham, DE
• Volkmar Stenzenberger · Unterhaching, DE
• Anton Theer · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 25, 1978
• Grant date: Apr 1, 1980
• Expiry date: Jul 25, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03B13/20
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A still or cinematographic camera has a zoom lens movable between two focal-length settings. An eyelevel viewfinder is provided. Also provided is an actuating arrangement which is coupled with both the zoom lens and with components of the viewfinder so as to change the image are a visible in the viewfinder as it moves the lens from one to the other of the focal-length settings.