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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1992
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic still camera having a photographing system, a photographing element located at a surface of the photographing optical system on which an image is formed and a finder optical unit disposed separately from the photographing optical system. An optical path of the finder optical unit includes a forward optical path disposed parallel to and close to the photographing optical system, a rearward optical path disposed at a position away form an optical axis of the photographing optical system farther than the forward optical path and a deflected optical path for connecting the forward optical path to the rearward optical path and disposed at a position forward of the photographing element.