Patent ID: 6641311
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
A camera comprising:a front cover that is disposed at a lens-mounted side of the camera, so as to be slidable with respect to a camera body mounted with the lens, and includes a lens aperture which exposes the lens; a movable lens barrier that can be moved between a cover position in which lens barrier covers the lens aperture and an uncover position in which the lens barrier exposes the lens aperture; and an opening/closing mechanism which moves the lens barrier interlockingly with a sliding movement of the front cover so that a reciprocal movement of the front cover away from a first position and back to the first position initiated while the lens barrier is in the cover position will perform opening of the lens aperture by moving the lens barrier to the uncover position and leaving the lens barrier in the uncover position, and wherein the reciprocal movement of the front cover initiated while the lens barrier is in the uncover position will perform closure of the lens aperture by moving the lens barrier to the cover position and leaving the lens barrier in the cover position.