Nikon Corporation

Nippon Kagaku K.k.

Sunao Nishioka

Nobuo Matsukawa

Ryuichi Mori

Yoshiyuki Nakano

Keiji Ohsawa

Mikio Takemae

Tetsuo Goto

A camera quickly selecting a focus detection region or a light metering region while seeing a finder picture. A region selection member is provided so that an operating surface of the region selection member is substantially parallel to a finder picture.

Camera

A camera having a depth priority operation mode calculates a stop value and perform photography such that multiple objects at different distances all enter into the photographic depth of field. When the calculated stop value is less than the smallest possible stop value of a photographic lens attached to the camera, the photographic lens is driven so that the closest object is placed on the photographic lens side of the focal surface, when the closest object is focused into the photographic depth of field.

Camera having a depth priority operation mode

A camera comprising a camera body; a supporting base plate mounted to the camera body across a connecting member; a rotary shaft extending at an end into the camera body through the supporting base plate; a bearing member for rotatably supporting the rotary shaft on the supporting base plate; and an elastic member provided between the bearing member and the camera body, whereby the camera body supports the bearing member across the elastic member.

Structure for fixing electric driving device to camera body

An autofocus camera conducts a focus detection operation with one of differently directed sets of photoelectric conversion elements which is given priority according to the detected attitude of the camera. If focusing cannot be effected using the elements given priority, a focus detection operation is automatically conducted with the other elements. Also provided is a camera having a first mode of operation in which focusing detecting operations are conducted which collectively utilize outputs of all of the elements of differently directed sets of photoelectric conversion elements when a first camera attitude is detected, and a second mode of operation in which focusing detecting operations are conducted which collectively disregard the output of at least one conversion element when a second camera attitude is detected.

Autofocus camera

A camera is provided with an operation member for fixing one of the exposure data and the focusing position or both the exposure data and the focusing position, and a selector member for selecting one of the operations of the operation member.

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Tokyo, Japan

Sunao Nishioka