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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1991
Donald E Mauchan, Marlborough, MA (US);
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A camera having a flash for illuminating an object to be photographed includes a film cassette inside the camera housing. A template is located within the film cassette to overlie a stack of film units during their sequential exposure. The template includes an opaque section with transparent portions to cause an identifying indicia to be produced on any resulting photograph. A reflector is mounted on the camera outside of the field of view of its objective lens and intermediate the flash and the object to be photographed, to reflect a portion of the light from the flash back through the camera lens to impinge on the template. The result, in the developed film unit, is increased contrast in the section of the photograph underlying the template between the opaque and transparent portions.