Patent · US Expired

Camera system

US5016039A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 13, 1990
Grant dateMay 14, 1991
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Expiry dateAug 13, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B7/28
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A camera system has a device for recording an image of a photographing field in a recording medium such as a photographing negative color film, a photometering device for forming brightness information concerning the brightness of the photographing field, and a color information forming device for forming, in accordance with the brightness information, color information concerning the color of the light from a light source for illuminating the photographing field. The printing process after the deployment of the image is executed with a suitable control of the printing exposure light quantity in accordance with the color information so that a color print of a good quality can be obtained with a high reproducibility of the color.

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