Photography – With exposure objective focusing means – focusing aid – or... – Plural focusing or rangefinding areas
Patent
1996-11-14
1998-04-14
Metjahic, Safet
Photography
With exposure objective focusing means, focusing aid, or...
Plural focusing or rangefinding areas
396271, 396287, G03B 310, G03B 7099
Patent
active
057404780
ABSTRACT:
A camera having an autofocus apparatus for multi-spot focus detection. Particularly, a camera is provided in such an arrangement that selection operation members for selecting an arbitrary area from a plurality of focus detection areas by a manual operation are provided at positions where a photographer can operate it readily with a finger while holding the camera in a lateral posture or in a vertical posture and that selection information selected through one operation member out of the above two operation members depending upon a holding condition of the camera, is validated, thereby improving the operability.
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Popular Photography, Dec. 1992, vol. 99, No. 12, p. 57.
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Metjahic Safet
Nelson Eric
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