Photographic apparatus

• US 5,247,319 A
• Filed: 09/28/1990
• Issued: 09/21/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Randall A. Hahn
• Original Assignee: Randall A. Hahn
• Inventors: Hahn, Randall A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gellner, Michael L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BLANKENSHIP, HOWARD BENNETT
• Application Number:
  US07/590,363
• Time in Patent Office: 1,089 Days
• Field of Search: 354/75, 354/76, 354/81, 354/83, 354/96, 354/195.1, 354/195.12, 354/293, 354/354, 354/290
• US Class Current: 396/428
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/00 Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 27/323 Copying cameras G03B27/34 - G03B27/70 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 29/00 Combinations of cameras, projectors or photographic printing apparatus with non-photographic non-optical apparatus, e.g. clocks or weapons; Cameras having the shape of other objects combinations with flash apparatus G03B15/03

Abstract

A trailer-mounted, operator-resident camera having a reflected light viewing system. The camera comprises apparatus for scrubbing and controlling the temperature and humidity of air inside the camera and apparatus for adjusting the distance between the lens assembly and the film plane. Alternative embodiments comprising apparatus for adjusting the position of the film plane inside the camera and for using a pivotable lens assembly and a curved film plane are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A photographic apparatus for photographing a subject comprising an operator-resident camera, a trailer for transporting the camera, and means for attaching the operator-resident camera to the trailer;

said operator-resident camera further comprising a reflective light viewing system, means for permitting the entire body of the operator to ingress into said camera and egress from said camera, film support means adapted to maintain film within said camera, lens support means adapted to direct light into said camera to said film support means, and means for obstructing the passage of light into said camera through said lens support means.

2. The photographic apparatus of claim 1 wherein said trailer further comprises means for stabilizing said trailer on an underlying support surface.

3. The photographic apparatus of claim 1 wherein said trailer further comprises means for leveling said trailer on an underlying support surface.

4. The photographic apparatus of claim 1 wherein said camera further comprises means for controlling the air temperature inside said camera.

5. The photographic apparatus of claim 1 wherein said camera further comprises means for controlling the air humidity inside said camera.

6. The photographic apparatus of claim 1 wherein said camera further comprises air recirculating and scrubbing means.

7. The photographic apparatus of claim 1 wherein said camera further comprises an interior wall defining first and second interior compartments within said camera, both of said interior compartments being adapted to accommodate the entire body of the operator.

8. The photographic apparatus of claim 7 wherein said first internal compartment of said camera comprises a doorway communicating with the outside of said camera, said doorway being sufficiently large to permit ingress and egress of the operator.

9. The photographic apparatus of claim 8 wherein said interior wall comprises a second doorway, said second doorway being sufficiently large to permit ingress and egress of the operator.

10. The photographic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means enabling the operator to directly view an image of the subject to be photographed from inside the camera.

11. A camera for use in photographing a subject, said camera comprising a body adapted to accommodate the entire body of an operator inside the body and comprising a reflected light viewing system adapted to permit the operator to view an image of the subject to be photographed from inside the camera.

12. The camera of claim 11, being skid-mounted on a towable trailer.

13. The camera of claim 11, further comprising means for controlling the air temperature within said camera.

14. The camera of claim 11, further comprising means for controlling the air humidity within said camera.

15. The camera of claim 11, further comprising means for scrubbing air within said camera.

16. The camera of claim 11, further comprising a lens, a film plane, and means for adjusting the distance between the lens and the film plane.

17. The camera of claim 16 wherein the position of the film plane is adjustable within said camera.

18. The camera of claim 11 comprising a curved film plane and a pivotable lens assembly adapted to pivot relative to the curved film plane during exposure of the film.

19. The camera of claim 11, said camera comprising a film plane, means for securing film to said film plane, and means permitting the operator to view the subject to be photographed from inside the camera while said film is secured to said film plane.