Claims
- 1. A strobe control apparatus for a strobe-incorporated camera, comprising:
- a light emitter that is supported in a camera body by a supporting mechanism, said light emitter being movable between a retracted position and an operative position;
- an auxiliary light emitter that emits a contrast pattern towards an object to be photographed, said auxiliary light emitter being movable between said retracted position and said operative position together with said light emitter; and
- a drive mechanism for moving said light emitter and said auxiliary light emitter between said retracted position and said operative position in response to an occurrence of a predetermined condition, said light emitter being controlled to emit light in response to said predetermined condition, wherein said auxiliary light emitter serves as a self-timer indicator to indicate a self-timer operation when said drive mechanism moves said light emitter and said auxiliary light emitter to said operative position in self-timer mode.
- 2. The strobe control apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a separate self-timer indicator that indicates a self-timer operation, said separate self-timer indicator being movable together with said light emitter and said auxiliary light emitter, wherein said separate self-timer indicator and said auxiliary light emitter alternately blink to indicate said self-timer operation.
- 3. The strobe control apparatus of claim 2, wherein said separate self-timer indicator indicates said self-timer operation in response to a determination that light should be emitted by said light emitter.
- 4. The strobe control apparatus of claim 1, wherein said self-timer indicator and said auxiliary light emitter comprise a single emitter.
- 5. The strobe control apparatus of claim 4, further comprising a center condenser lens and a circumferential diffusion optical system that are provided in front of said auxiliary light emitter.
- 6. The strobe control apparatus of claim 1, wherein said auxiliary light emitter comprises an auxiliary light emitting diode.
- 7. The strobe control apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a photometering circuit for determining a brightness of said object to be photographed, said determined brightness being manipulated to determine a calculated shutter speed.
- 8. The strobe control apparatus of claim 7, wherein said predetermined condition comprises said calculated shutter speed being below a predetermined value.
- 9. The strobe control apparatus of claim 8, further comprising means for compulsively causing an emitting of light from said light emitter regardless of said calculated shutter speed.
- 10. The strobe control apparatus of claim 1, wherein said separate self-timer indicator and said auxiliary light emitter are connected in parallel.
- 11. A strobe control apparatus for a strobe light emitter incorporated camera, comprising:
- an auxiliary light emitter that emits a contrast pattern towards an object to be photographed, said auxiliary light emitter also serving as a self-timer indicator to indicate said self-timer operation, said auxiliary light emitter being movable between a retracted position and an operative position;
- a drive mechanism for moving said auxiliary light emitter between said retracted position and said operative position, said auxiliary light emitter serving as said self-timer indicator to indicate said self-timer operation when said drive mechanism moves said auxiliary light emitter to said operative position, wherein the improvement comprises:
- a self-timer operation observing means that is provided on a camera body of said camera so that said self-timer indicator is observable by an object to be photographed even when said auxiliary light emitter, serving as said self-timer indicator, is in said retracted position.
- 12. The strobe control apparatus of claim 11, wherein said self-timer operation observing means is made from a material having a light diffusion optical system.
- 13. The strobe control apparatus of claim 11, wherein said material comprises a transparent material.
- 14. The strobe control apparatus of claim 11, wherein said material comprises a semi-transparent material.
- 15. A strobe control apparatus for a strobe light emitter incorporated into a camera body comprising:
- auxiliary light emitting means for projecting a light pattern onto an object to be photographed for automatic distance measurement;
- said auxiliary light emitting means further comprising means for providing an optical indication of the camera being set in said self-timer mode.
Priority Claims (4)
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1-261809 |
Oct 1989 |
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1-264534 |
Oct 1989 |
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1-268671 |
Oct 1989 |
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1-268672 |
Oct 1989 |
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Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 07/982,009, filed Nov. 24, 1992, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/593,970, filed Oct. 9, 1992, now abandoned.
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