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Panoramic pickup camera

  • US 4,038,670 A
  • Filed: 03/03/1975
  • Issued: 07/26/1977
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a panoramic pickup camera for producing pictures with randomly large viewing angles which may exceed 360°

  • , wherein at the moment of light exposure the film is stationary, having a support, a camera structure containing the objective and rotatable relative to the support, and a film container and a film guide having a substantially cylindrical arched portion, the radius of which is equal to the focal length of the objective, the improvement comprising;

    the camera structure containing spaced from the objective the film container, said camera structure incorporating a housing enclosing the objective, the film guide including a ring positioned on the side of the housing which is situated opposite the support, said ring being freely rotatable respective to the camera structure, said support possessing a substantially cylindrical configuration, a first substantially cylindrical circumferential surface provided on said cylindrical support, said ring possessing a second substantially cylindrical circumferential surface, the film being held under contact at its one edge against the first cylindrical circumferential surface of the support and at its other edge against the second cylindrical circumferential surface of the ring.

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