Abstract:
Apparatus for controlling the drive of a direct current (DC) motor to permit it to be rotated reversibly, which comprises a motor driving circuit with a DC motor and switching means connected in series with an alternating current (AC) source and a resistor bridge circuit for controlling the switching means. The DC motor is driven to rotate reversibly under the control of the switching means to be energized by the output voltage of pickup terminals of said resistor bridge circuit to bring a controlled object into the predetermined position.
Abstract:
A flash device for a camera comprising a main capacitor charged by a power source, a flash circuit for illumination of a flash lamp and a detector circuit, said detector circuit being thermally compensated for thermal variation of the flash device.
Abstract:
A photographic exposure control apparatus for a single lens reflex camera having an electrically timed shutter. The apparatus is characterized in the use of a variable frequency pulse-forming circuit in combination with a pulse frequency control circuit and a pulse frequency modulating circuit for providing shutter interval control signals. Responsive to the level of luminance of a subject being photographed just before film exposure is initiated, the pulse frequency control circuit controls the frequency of the pulse-forming circuit so as to sufficiently reduce the time necessary for storing a group of pulses of which the number depends upon the level of subject luminance. The pulse frequency modulating circuit simultaneously modulates the frequency of pulses supplied thereto from the pulse-forming circuit in such a way that when the number of pulses modulated reaches the number of pulses stored, an exposure interval is established.
Abstract:
In the disclosed electric blade actuating device for a photographing apparatus an electromagnetic mechanism has a bladeactuator frame with at least three magnets, a stationary supporting member and electromagnetic coils or solenoids in numbers corresponding to the number of said magnets, and a switching means for said electromagnetic mechanism. The electromagnetic coils or solenoids are fixedly provided on said stationary supporting member. The switching means is arranged to switch the feed polarity from a power source to the electromagnetic mechanism for blade actuation by rotating the actuator frame. This is done by exciting the electromagnetic coils. The electromagnetic mechanism is arranged on a circumference of the device about equal intervals.
Abstract:
Automatic focusing device for a camera has a chopper and a separator. The chopper is located in front of a deflecting device for directing two different light beams on a common photoelectric effect element. The separator is to separate into two signals the output of the photoelectric effect element which are amplified by a single AC amplifier. The separator is synchronized with the chopper.
Abstract:
In the camera disclosed, a light measuring device and input data setting device establish exposure control signals which regulate exposure elements. When the control signal is out of range of an element, a switch turns on an adjusting arrangement which resets the setting device. The setting device may preset an element such as the aperture or shutter.
Abstract:
Cadmium sulphide photocells suffer from poor response w.r.t. silicon photodiode arrays although they do not suffer from large leakage currents which generate false exposure readings at low intensities. The invention provides a compensating circuit for silicon blue cells in which a differential amplifier coupled to a variable resistance determines the leakage current through the photocells and balances this out by a variable dark current. The subsequent output of the system is amplified by an operational amplifier, of which the variable resistance is part. An embodiment of the invention thus ensures a linear pattern of the photo current dependent on the lighting strength even when the latter is poor.
Abstract:
A flash device for a camera comprising a main capacitor charged by a power source, a flash circuit for illumination of a flash lamp and a detector circuit, said detector circuit being thermally compensated for thermal variation of the flash device.
Abstract:
A motor drive unit adapted for use with a camera having a motorized shutter speed adjusting device. When a continuous series of frame exposures are to be made at a predetermined frame frequency, the set value of shutter time in the camera is made to be compared with the longest possible shutter time dependent upon that frame frequency by a comparator provided in the motor drive unit. When the actual shutter time value exceeds the longest possible one, the motorized shutter speed adjusting device is actuated, causing the shutter time value to change itself to the longest possible value.