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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 1977
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1976
William R Pope, Cambridge, MA (US);
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A time delay circuit is provided to control a quench strobe so that the quench strobe may be utilized in conjunction with a camera of the type having an automatic exposure control system for controlling a pair of scanning shutter blade elements having respective primary apertures therethrough for collectively defining a gradually varying effective aperture size as a function of the position of the blade elements together with corresponding photocell sweep secondary apertures therethrough for movement in correspondence with the primary apertures to define a small secondary effective aperture for admitting the passage of scene light to a photocell. The time delay circuit is made responsive to the shutter blade closing command signal from the camera control system to provide a quench signal to the strobe only after a predetermined time delay thereby compensating for the fact that the command signal anticipates for the additional light admitted by the shutter blade elements during the time required for the shutter blade elements to close when an ordinary flash lamp is utilized.