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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1995
Minoru Ishiguro, Saitama-ken, JP;
Jun'ichi Iwamoto, Saitama-ken, JP;
Muneyoshi Sato, Saitama-ken, JP;
Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd., Saitama-ken, JP;
Abstract
A camera comprising a mode setting portion in which either mode is set out of a first focusing mode and a second focusing mode. The camera includes: a mode switch, detecting means, focusing means, and focusing mode controlling means for performing such a control. After completion of focusing when the period detected by the detecting means is longer than a predetermined period and the second focusing mode is set or when the first focusing mode is set the mode is switched to the first focusing mode. The present invention provides a camera which permits the user to select either the operation in which the mode change is performed every shot or the operation in which a same mode is continuously maintained, by the period in which the mode switch is kept on.