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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2000
Takashi Tobioka, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A lens holder for holding a taking lens is fitted in a lens barrel rotating and shifting. The lens barrel is provided with cams respectively inserted in pins of the lens holder. Each of the cams has a short-distance cam groove and a long-distance cam groove, and an oblique cam groove that connects the above mentioned cams. A flash selection switch slidable between an ON position and an OFF position. When the flash selection switch is in the OFF position, the pins are respectively located on the long-distance cam groove, so that the taking lens is set on a long-distance lens position to perform a daylight photography with pan-focus. When the flash section switch is slid to the ON position, the lens holder rotates by one of the pins. When the lens holder rotates, each of the pins respectively enters the short-distance cam groove and the taking lens is set on a short-distance lens position. The taking lens is focused on a short-distance zone to perform a flash photography. In the flash photography, if subject brightness is high, a stop plate enters a photographic light path to set a small stop aperture.