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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2002
Toru Ito, Saitama, JP;
Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd., Saitama, JP;
Abstract
Sidewalls of a flash opening formed in a front cover of a camera are processed with the same surface treatment as that of the front cover. A condenser plate is so fitted into the flash opening from a backside of the front cover that a part of the condenser plate is protrusive from and another part is retractive from an outer surface of the front cover. In a place where the condenser plate is retractive, a part of sidewalls are exposed outside. In wildest-angle photography, edges of a flashlight reflector containing a flash discharge tube are moved to a position between the outer surface and an inner surface of the front cover touching a top surface of the condenser plate. Thus, the camera with a zoom flash device is made thinner.