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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1991
Yukio Takaoka, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Kohmoto, Tokyo, JP;
Susao Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuhiko Nozaki, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Tadao Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Kazumoto Takakusagi, Tokyo, JP;
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A camera is provided having a finder optical system, a photographing optical system separate from the finder optical system, and a macro photographing mode. The camera includes a movable field frame which is normally located at an inoperative position in which it is retracted from an optical axis of the finder optical system, and which is moved to an operative position in which the movable field frame is in the finder optical axis in association with the transfer into the macro photographing mode. The movable field frame is provided with a field opening corresponding to a photographing range of the photographing optical system.