Flash photography system

• US 4,939,534 A
• Filed: 12/02/1988
• Issued: 07/03/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Inoue, Toru, Nakai, Masaaki, Taniguchi, Nobuyuki, Omaki, Takanobu, Hosomizu, Hiroshi, Sekida, Minoru, Niwa, Masatake
• Primary Examiner(s): Hix, L. T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gray, David M.
• Application Number:
  US07/279,042
• Time in Patent Office: 578 Days
• Field of Search: 354/127.13, 354/286, 354/416, 354/421, 354/145.1, 354/129, 354/127.1, 354/127.11, 354/149.1, 354/289.1, 354/289.11, 354/289.12
• US Class Current: 396/170
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/05 Combinations of cameras with electronic flash apparatus; Electronic flash units
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2217/005 Blur detection
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 7/097 for control of both exposure time and aperture

Abstract

A flash photography system which comprises a photographic camera and an electronic flash device;

said photographic camera comprising

aperture value output means for producing aperture value under the flash light photographing,

flash light stop signal output means for integrating output value of a light value of a photographing object and for producing a signal for stopping emission of a flash light when the integrated value reaches a predetermined value,

said flash device comprising

calculating means for calculating a maximum photographing distance which is covered by the flash light for effecting a correct exposure on the photographing object on the basis of a maximum light value of the flash light and the aperture value fed from the aperture value output means, and

display means for displaying the maximum photographing distance on the basis of the output of the calculating means.

Claims

1. A flash light photography system having a camera using an interchangeable lens in conjunction with a flash light emitting device, comprising:

input means for serially inputting a plurality of kinds of data fed from said interchangeable lens including data for controlling said flash device;

selecting means for selecting the data for controlling said flash device; and

transmitting means for transmitting serially the data for controlling said flash device selected by said selecting means to said flash light emitting device.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

light measuring means for measuring brightness of an object to be photographed;

calculation means for calculating an aperture value for the flash light photography on the basis of the data of the interchangeable lens and the data of said light measuring means;

whereby said transmitting means transmits the calculated aperture value to said flash light emitting device.

3. A flash light photography system having a camera using an interchangeable lens in conjunction with a flash light emitting device, comprising:

input means for serially inputting a plurality of kinds of data fed from said interchangeable lens including data for controlling said flash device;

calculating means for calculating the data for controlling said flash light emitting device on the basis of the input data; and

transmitting means for serially transmitting the calculated data to the flash light emitting device.

4. The flash light photography system according to claim 3, wherein said calculation means contains a light measuring unit for measuring brightness of an object to be photographed, and a calculating unit for calculating control data for controlling said flash light emitting device on the basis of the data input by said input means and the data obtained by said light measuring unit.