Patent ID: 6377752
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A zoom lens camera comprising:a lens barrel having an optical axis and a lens that stops stepwise at a plurality of zoom areas; driving means for moving the lens barrel in a direction of the optical axis; a finder having magnification that varies in accordance with movement of the lens barrel by the driving means in the direction of the optical axis; a position detector for detecting the position of the lens barrel in the direction of the optical axis; a controller for controlling the driving means to drive the lens barrel so that the lens barrel stops at each of a plurality of waiting positions corresponding respectively to each of the plurality of zoom areas in dependence on a detected result by the position detector; and a memory for making a waiting position of the lens barrel for at least one zoom area variable, and for storing position data of the waiting position corresponding to a predetermined finder field ratio representing a ratio of an image range confirmed through the finder in the waiting position of the lens barrel in each zoom area to a range of photographed image at a prescribed focus position in the zoom area, wherein the controller controls the driving means so that the lens barrel moves to the waiting position based on the position data stored in the memory.