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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 1996
Filed:
May. 04, 1993
Masaki Tokui, Kanagawa, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention provides a shutter unit in which a photographing picture size selecting mechanism is disposed by skillfully utilizing a shutter unit without substantially increasing the size of a camera. The shutter unit includes a shutter plate having a shutter driving section, a cover plate facing the shutter plate, a shutter mechanism provided between the cover and shutter plates and opened/closed by the shutter driving section, picture size regulating members which are made of a plurality of thin plates provided on a surface of the cover plate opposite to a surface thereof facing the shutter plate, and a driving section for the picture size regulating members provided on the shutter plate and/or the cover plate, the driving section for the picture size regulating members being provided above the shutter driving section.