LENSLESS VIEWFINDER AND LENSLESS VIEWFINDER CAMERA

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inexpensively provide a reticle viewed through a viewfinder when a photographer performs the framing of the landscape of a picture to be processed and to provide a camera having a viewfinder without a lens.;SOLUTION: A camera main body CB has the front wall aperture part FO of the viewfinder, and a concave mirror RC focused on the reticle RT is provided to surround the aperture part FO on the inner surface of the aperture part FO. The reticle RT provided on the inner surface of the rear wall aperture part RO of the viewfinder of the camera main body CB is arranged on the inner surface of the aperture part area of the eyepiece of the viewfinder. The reticle RT is irradiated with incident light from the aperture part FO, and an image is reflected on a photographer's eye by the mirror RC. In a zoom lens camera, the size of the mask of the reticle is varied according to the zoom position of a photographing lens.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO