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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2000
Fumiaki Ishito, Sakai, JP;
Akira Funahashi, Sakai, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A camera capable of switching two kinds of photographing modes, the normal photographing mode and the trimming-photographing mode capable of telephotographing in pseudo, and switching the photographing mode in an arbitrary position. A viewfinder cam for changing the focal length of a viewfinder optical system to confirm the range of an image plane to be printed through the viewfinder includes two cam faces corresponding to the photographing modes. When the cam face to be used is selected according to the photographing mode, a pin for changing the focal length of the viewfinder optical system interlocking with the zooming operation of the photographing lens is moved along the selected cam face, whereby the focal length of the viewfinder optical system is changed so that the angle of view of the viewfinder coincides with the angle of view of a photograph to be printed.