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Flash shot control device for camera

US4666280A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 25, 1986
Grant dateMay 19, 1987
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Expiry dateMar 25, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B2215/0528
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A flash shot control device for a camera in which the angle of flash lighting is controlled in accordance with the output of a backlight detector. On assumption that a subject of principal photographic interest takes its place at the center of the field of view, when backlight is detected, the flash lighting is concentrated to the central portion of the field of view, thereby the shadows of the subject are lightened by the flash.

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