Nikon Corporation

Masaru Shida

Toshihiro Sato

Tsutomu Wakabayashi

Akira Ezawa

Kimio Uematsu

Keiji Ohsawa

Shinichi Tsukada

Naoyuki Murakami

An aperture control device includes: an aperture first driving member that controls an aperture of a diaphragm through which light flux passes; an aperture second driving member that drives the aperture first driving member; a motor that drives the aperture second driving member; a detection device that detects start of movement of the aperture first driving member caused by the aperture second driving member driven by the motor; and a motor control device that controls an aperture value of the diaphragm by controlling a rotational amount of the motor after the detection device detects the start of movement of the aperture first driving member.

Aperture control device and camera

A focal plane shutter unit includes two pairs of blade units consisting of a plurality of light shielding thin plates, a first plate having a first aperture, a second plate having a second aperture, disposed in a face-to-face relationship with the first plate, and having a part of a film passage path in a surface opposite to the surface on which the first plate is disposed, and a blade housing unit for housing the two pairs of blade units disposed in between the first plate and the second plate.

Focal plane shutter unit having three plates

There is disclosed a focus state display device, adapted for use in a camera which has plural focus detection areas in the phototaking image field and effects focusing in one area (focusing area) selected from such plural focus detection areas. The device has a display with two different display modes, and displays the focusing area in one display mode when the lens of the camera is in an infocus state to the object in the focusing area, and in the other display mode when the lens is in an out-of-focus state to the object in the focusing area. In another embodiment, the device has a display with three different display modes, and displays the focusing area by a display mode and other focus detection areas (namely nonfocusing areas) by two other display modes depending on whether the object in respective area is in focus or out of focus.

Focus state display device for camera

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Sendai, Japan

Masaru Shida