Patent ID: 6349177
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
A camera for exposing latent images on successive frames of a filmstrip having magnetic recording capacity, in which a memory stores a count indicative of the film frames remaining to be exposed including to indicate that the final frame was exposed, a magnetic head magnetically records user-selected information on the filmstrip adjacent each film frame, and a motor is actuated following exposure of each film frame to advance the filmstrip forward one frame increment to permit said magnetic head to record the information on the filmstrip adjacent each exposed frame and is actuated after the magnetic information is written on the filmstrip adjacent the final exposed frame to rewind the exposed film length rearward, is characterized in that:an input receiving control is connected to said memory, said magnetic head, and said motor for delaying actuation of said motor to rewind the exposed film length rearward after said magnetic head has magnetically written the information on the filmstrip adjacent the final exposed frame, to give the user some time to manually input to said control that the information magnetically written adjacent the final exposed frame should be rewritten, and in the absence of the input by the time the delay has elapsed triggers actuation of said motor to rewind the exposed film length rearward; and said memory stores the magnetically recorded information only for the most-recently exposed one of the film frames.