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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1994
Yukio Noguchi, Saitama-ken, JP;
Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd., Saitama-ken, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
A finder structure for a camera, in which the finder is divided into an objective block and an eyepiece block. The housings of these blocks are removably connected with each other, thereby allowing one of the housings to move with respect to the other housing in a direction transversely of the optical axis of the finder to correct parallax. The structure comprises in the finder, a field frame plate, panoramic field frame members defining panoramic field frames, and a field frame changeover lever which engages with the panoramic field frame members. A shaft of the field frame changeover lever is rotatably received in an opening formed in the housing of the finder to engage with a finder drive lever disposed outside the finder, allowing the finder drive lever to be linked to a photography mode changeover lever to slide the panoramic field frame members by operation of the photography mode changeover lever. The finder is incorporated in the camera body by mounting either one of the objective block or the eyepiece block on the camera body, and connecting the other block (not mounted on the camera body) to the block mounted to the body with locking screws or the like. Parallax is corrected by loosening the locking screws to move the block not mounted on the camera body relative to the block mounted on the camera body.