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Exposure control apparatus and photographing lens in camera

US5126780A · kind A · utility

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40Claims
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Filing dateMay 30, 1990
Grant dateJun 30, 1992
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Expiry dateMay 30, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B17/14
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An exposure control apparatus of a camera having a memory on a photographing lens for storing lens information of the photographing lens. A lens information input device is provided on the camera body to which the photographing lens is mounted, for inputting the lens information stored in the memory. The memory has optimum diaphragm data which is determined in accordance with a predetermined specific condition of the photographing lens and which is stored in the memory as the lens information. The camera body includes an exposure operating device which arithmetically sets an exposure parameter based on the optimum diaphragm data which is input to the camera body through the lens information inputting device from the memory.

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