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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 1980
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1978
Frank Staudacher, Haan, DE;
Otto Stemme, Munich, DE;
Peter Lermann, Narring, DE;
Werner Went, Leverkusen, DE;
Volkmar Stenzenberger, Unterhaching, DE;
Eberhard Herzig, Cologne, DE;
Friedrich Stumpf, Munich, DE;
Thomas Scheller, Munich, DE;
Jurgen Sylla, Munich, DE;
Friedrich Winkler, Unterhaching, DE;
Johann Zanner, Unterhaching, DE;
AGFA-Gevaert, A.G., Leverkusen, DE;
Abstract
The user of a motion-picture camera selects between motion-picture and single-exposure operation, and presses a release member to initiate shooting, letting go of it to terminate motion-picture shooting. Each time the user lets go of the release member, an internal device provides an interrupt-transport marking alongside the just exposed film frame, or phase shifted relative thereto. Alternatively, the interrupt-transport marking is provided the next time the user presses the release member. In this way, the terminal frame of each motion-picture scene, and each and every one of the interspersed single-exposure shots, is provided with an interrupt-transport frame marking. Thus, if the film is run through a reproducing apparatus provided with a marking detector, detection of each interrupt-transport marking during motion-picture reproduction causes the terminal frame of each motion-picture scene, and also each one of the still shots, to be persistently reproduced as a still image. The interrupt-transport markings could alternatively be provided by such a device in a reproducing apparatus.