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Title:
CAMERA SYSTEM, LENS BARREL, AND CAMERA BODY
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2012185289
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a camera system able to easily set a drive range of a lens according to a photographic mode.

The camera system (1) according to the present invention comprises a lens barrel (20) and a camera body (10). The lens barrel includes a lens control part (200) that transmits information about a photographable range of an optical system (210) to the camera body and restricts a drive range of a movable lens by a drive part on the basis of information about the drive range of the movable lens according to a photographic mode, which has received from the camera body. The camera body includes a camera control part (100) that determines the drive range of the movable lens on the basis of the information about the photographic mode and the photographable range of the optical system received from the lens barrel, and transmits the information about the drive range of the movable lens to the lens barrel.


Inventors:
NAKAJIMA TOKUAKI
OIKAWA MASAFUMI
Application Number:
JP2011047743A
Publication Date:
September 27, 2012
Filing Date:
March 04, 2011
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
NIKON CORP
International Classes:
G03B17/14; G02B7/02; G02B7/08; G03B7/20; H04N5/225; H04N5/232
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
鎌田 久男