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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1985
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1982
Masahiro Konishi, Minami-ashigara, JP;
Makoto Murakoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An electronic still camera which is capable of taking a still picture purely electronically. Such a camera employs a magnetic tape recorder of audio grade but is able to obtain magnetic records that are excellent in random accessibility for reproducing. The electronic still camera is provided with a magnetic recording unit for recording image data from a photoelectric conversion unit on a magnetic tape preformatted with tape marks defining a plurality of record units, each record unit corresponding to one frame, and a format signal detector for detecting the tape marks or format signals on the magnetic tape. In recording of the image data on the magnetic tape, the record unit preceeding each photographing unit, a photographing unit including a single frame for still photography and a plurality of frames for motion picture photography, is made a non-record unit and the non-record unit is used as a magnetic tape start and stop area.