Patent ID: 6220770
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
A camera adapted to use a cartridge including an image recording medium, the cartridge having a cartridge cover that opens and closes to permit the image recording medium to exit from and withdraw into the cartridge, the camera comprising:operation means for causing the cartridge cover of a cartridge loaded in the camera to open to an open state;inhibition means for selectively inhibiting an unloading operation of the cartridge from the camera;actuation means operable in a first state, in which operation of said actuation means simultaneously actuates said operation means to cause the cartridge cover to open to the open state and actuates said inhibition means to inhibit an unloading operation of the cartridge from the camera, and operable in a second state, in which such operation of said actuation means does not actuate said inhibition means; andstate selection means for selecting operation of said actuation means in the first state or the second state.