Camera having autofocus apparatus

Details Camera having autofocus apparatus Camera having autofocus apparatus

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

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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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patent: 4887117 (1989-12-01), Kobayashi
patent: 5128705 (1992-07-01), Someya et al.
patent: 5138357 (1992-08-01), Utagawa
patent: 5258795 (1993-11-01), Lucas
patent: 5561492 (1996-10-01), Ohsawa
Popular Photography, Dec. 1992, vol. 99, No. 12, p. 57.

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