Patent ID: 6047140
Filing Date: 2000-04-04
Classification: G03B,G03D

Abstract:
A method for allowing data of a shooting film accommodated in a cartridge which lacks a data recording medium to be stored in a data recording medium by removing the film from the cartridge and placing the film in a cartridge having a data recording medium, said method being performed by a laboratory system which develops the shooting film, prints on a printing paper each developed image on the developed shooting film, reads out by a reading means the developed image recorded on the shooting film, and temporarily stores by a memory means the read-out data of the image data, said method comprising the steps of:taking out a shooting film to be developed from a cartridge which lacks a data recording medium, in order to develop the film;developing the film;winding up the shooting film in a cartridge after development, the cartridge having a recording medium provided thereon;reading an ID which is pre-recorded on the shooting film;printing the ID on the cartridge having a recording medium;reading out image data recorded on the shooting film by a reading means;storing the read-out image data in a memory means; andrecording the stored image data, together with magnetic information and optical information pre-recorded on the shooting film, including any combination thereon, on the data recording medium of the cartridge having a recording medium.