Title:
DIGITAL CAMERA
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3718744
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small-sized digital camera provided with a mirror that can be withdrawn and that distributes light transmitted through a photographing lens into different directions.
SOLUTION: A half mirror turnable upward is obliquely placed in an optical path ranging from an image pickup lens to an image pickup element and light reflected by the half mirror is led to an optical finder provided at the upper part thereof. The drive section turning the half mirror is fixed to a support base that supports the drive shaft of the half mirror are specifies the position thereof on the optical path, and the support base is configured to be turnable backward together with the half mirror and the drive section. Turning the support base backward can provide a space in a camera main body so as to allow the camera main body to accommodate the image pickup lens.
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Inventors:
Daigo Yoshioka
Katsuhito Shinkawa
Katsuhito Shinkawa
Application Number:
JP27662299A
Publication Date:
November 24, 2005
Filing Date:
September 29, 1999
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Photo Imaging Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
H04N5/232; G03B19/12; H04N5/225; H04N101/00; (IPC1-7): H04N5/225; G03B19/12
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Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Shizuo Sano
Shigeki Yamada
Shigeki Yamada