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Title:
CAMERA SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2005/078529
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A camera system which illuminates an object when it is phtogtraphed and is capable of accommodating photographing at a shutter speed exceeding a synchronous speed or continuous-shot photographing. An electronic camera, when in a single-shot photographing mode, flash-lights a Xe tube (81) when a shutter speed is up to a synchronous speed and lights an LED (83a) when it is higher than a synchronous speed, and continues lighting while a slit formed by shutter leading curtain and trailing curtain is moving in an effective imaging area on an imaging element. When in a single-shot photographing mode and at a trailing curtain synchronous photographing and a leading curtain synchronous photographing, it flash-lights the Xe tube (81). When in a single-shot photographing mode and at a slow photographing, it lights the LED (83a) and continues lighting while charge is stored in an imaging element. When in a continuous-shot photographing mode, it lights the LED (83a) and continues lighting while charge is stored in an imaging element; it stops lighting while stored charge is being transferred.

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Inventors:
IWASAKI HIROYUKI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2005/001955
Publication Date:
August 25, 2005
Filing Date:
February 09, 2005
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Assignee:
NIKON CORP (JP)
IWASAKI HIROYUKI (JP)
International Classes:
G03B7/16; G03B15/02; G03B15/03; G03B15/05; G03B17/16; G03G15/05; H04N5/225; H04N5/235; H04N5/238; H04N101/00; (IPC1-7): G03G15/05; G03B7/16; G03B15/02; G03B15/03; H04N5/238; H04N101/00
Foreign References:
US20040008274A12004-01-15
JP2003295271A2003-10-15
JPH10206942A1998-08-07
JPH0968742A1997-03-11
JP2005107240A2005-04-21
JP2001209093A2001-08-03
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Nagai, Fuyuki (2-1-1 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-k, Tokyo 11, JP)
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