A compact and inexpensive camera is provided, in which an illuminating unit for illuminating finder indices is arranged so as not to interfere with a quick-return reflecting mirror nor interfere with a built-in electronic flash device. A finder optical system has a focusing screen provided therein, which has at least one finder index formed thereon. A reflecting mirror is disposed to make upward and downward movements in a flipping motion area between a reflecting position where the reflecting m…

A camera includes a flash light emitting part arranged to be movable between a stowed position and a usage position, a first lever member arranged to swing in such a way as to cause the flash light emitting part to move from the stowed position to the usage position and from the usage position to the stowed position, a second lever member arranged to swing in such a way as to vary an illuminating angle of the flash light emitting part by moving a part of the flash light emitting part, when the f…

A camera includes a cartridge chamber into which a film cartridge is loaded, a spool chamber in which a spool arranged to take up thereon a film pulled out from the film cartridge is provided, a battery chamber which houses a battery therein, and a capacitor which accumulates electric charge for flash light emission, wherein one of the battery chamber and the capacitor is disposed above the spool chamber, and the other of the battery chamber and the capacitor is disposed below the spool chamber.

A camera capable of obtaining stable resolution and saving cost is provided. A camera includes a fixed cylinder 20 fixed to a camera main body, a rotatable ring 21 that is allowed to rotate around the optical axis when driven by a first driving gear 1, a focus cylinder 22 linked to the rotatable ring 21 through a cam mechanism so as to move linearly in the optical axis direction in association with a rotation of the rotatable ring 21, and a rotationally movable cylinder 23 engaged with the focus…

In this camera, a non-operation continuation time of a camera operation switch in a lens barrel extended state is clocked, the extended state of the lens barrel is checked when the continuation time exceeds a predetermined first reference time shorter than the continuation time. The lens barrel is immediately extended when the lens barrel is extended to a tele-end position. When the lens barrel is not located at the tele-end position, the camera waits until the continuation time exceeds a predet…

A camera has a cartridge chamber lid lock device arranged to allow the camera to be loaded with a film cartridge by opening a cartridge chamber lid irrespective of the position of a lens barrel in the optical axis direction when the film cartridge is not within the cartridge chamber and, when the film cartridge is loaded in the cartridge chamber, to prevent the cartridge chamber lid from being accidentally opened in a case where the film still remains outside the film cartridge or from being ina…

To provide a camera configured to be supported by the hands of a photographer on the bottom surface of the body thereof whose operability is improved by allowing various settings to be easily made with the camera body supported reliably and allowing a set value to be stored and retrieved with a small number of operation members, a configuration is provided which includes a grip portion protruding in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of a photographic optical system provided in a predeter…

The present invention relates to a camera which gives, to the user, a suggestion of how the camera be hand-gripped readily and properly and can prevent camera shaking beforehand. The camera comprises a picture-taking lens for forming a subject image, a camera body section connected to the picture-taking lens, and an outer covering member covering the picture-taking lens and camera body section, in which, in the outer covering member, the bottom surface of a covered section corresponding to the c…

A camera capable of switching two kinds of photographing modes, the normal photographing mode and the trimming-photographing mode capable of telephotographing in pseudo, and switching the photographing mode in an arbitrary position. A viewfinder cam for changing the focal length of a viewfinder optical system to confirm the range of an image plane to be printed through the viewfinder includes two cam faces corresponding to the photographing modes. When the cam face to be used is selected accordi…

In an APS camera, one of a light projecting part and an light receiving part of an autofocus device is arranged above a film cartridge chamber. The one of the light projecting part and the light receiving part has a recession at a bottom of a casing thereof. The camera is provided with a light-shielding door drive mechanism to open and close a light-shielding door of a film cartridge housed in the film cartridge chamber. At least a part of the light-shielding door drive mechanism is arranged bet…