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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1997
Yoshiyuki Nakano, Tokyo, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A camera has first and second openable/closable shutters disposed in side-by-side relationship with the same photographing optical path and can be attached with a flash device. The camera includes a first photographing portion for exposing a film with light by operating a first shutter in an opened state of a second shutter and a second photographing portion for exposing the film with the light by operating the second shutter in the opened state of the first shutter. The camera also includes a control circuit for selecting one of the first and second photographing portions and a flash control circuit for controlling the flash device when effecting flash photographing. The flash control circuit controls the flash device synchronizing with the film exposure corresponding to the selected photographing portion.