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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 1986
Filed:
May. 17, 1984
Kikuo Momiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A light measuring device for a camera has a light receiving photo-sensitive element, the light receiving surface of which is divided at least into two regions including a center part and a peripheral part and a diffusing member which is disposed in front of the photo-sensitive element and is arranged to have a diffusing surface formed solely in the peripheral area thereof. The light measuring operation of the device is arranged to be shiftable between one mode in which light measurement is carried out solely through the center part of the light receiving surface of the photo-sensitive element and another mode in which light measurement is carried out approximately through the whole light receiving surface.