Camera with self-timer

• US 5,097,285 A
• Filed: 11/21/1990
• Issued: 03/17/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1987
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Toshiyuki, Kazami, Kazuyuki, Tsukahara, Daiki, Wakabayashi, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hix, L. T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gray, David M.
• Application Number:
  US07/617,266
• Time in Patent Office: 482 Days
• Field of Search: 384/237, 384/238.1, 384/239, 384/267.1, 384/412, 384/418, 384/471-475
• US Class Current: 396/264
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/18 Signals indicating condition of a camera member or suitability of light indicating depth of field G03B13/30
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/40 with delayed or timed action

Abstract

A camera has an exposure device for effecting a photographing operation on a film in response to manipulation of a member, and a self-timer for causing the exposure device to effect the photographing operation after the counting of a predetermined time. The self-timer has a first state for causing the exposure device to effect the photographing operation only once and a second state for causing the exposure device to effect the photographing operation plural times. The camera comprises a first display for indicating that the self-timer is in an operable state, a second display for indicating that the exposure device functions plural times in response to the manipulation of the number, independently of the self-timer, and a control device for controlling the first and second display. The control device is adapted to only activate the first display in the first state of the self-timer and to activate both the first and second displays in the second state of the self-timer.

Claims

1. A camera having a first photographing mode in which only a single exposure operation is performed and a second photographing mode in which a plurality of exposure operations are performed continuously, said camera comprising:

self-timer means having a first state in which only a single exposure operation is performed that is delayed by an interval determined by said self-timer means with respect to manipulation of an exposure operation initiating member and having a second state in which a plurality of exposure operations are performed, including a first photographing operation that is delayed by an interval determined by said self-timer means with respect to manipulation of said member and subsequent exposure operations each of which is delayed by an interval determined by said self-timer means with respect to the preceding exposure operation;

first display means;

second display means; and

control means that activates only the first of said first and second display means when said self-timer means is in said first state, that activates only the second of said first and second display means when said camera is in said second photographing mode, and that activates both of said first and second display means when said self-timer means is in said second state.

2. A camera according to claim 1, wherein said first and second display means are adjacent parts of a display unit.

3. A camera according to claim 2, wherein said camera has a housing with a predetermined plane on which said display unit is disposed.

4. A camera according to claim 3, wherein said manipulatable member is disposed on said predetermined plane.

5. A camera according to claim 2, wherein said display unit is a liquid crystal display unit.