Patent ID: 6330399
Filing Date: 2001-12-11
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
A photographic camera of a type that has a taking lens having a focusing range from a closest focusing distance to infinity and is changeable in photographic mode between a normal photographic mode in which an almost entire area of an exposure frame of a photographic film is exposed with an intention of making a print from the exposure frame with a normal printing magnification and a pseudo magnified photographic mode in which a specific partial area of an exposure frame of a photographic film is exposed with an intention of making a print from the exposure frame with a larger printing magnification than the normal printing magnification and records data of an exposure for a specific exposure frame which indicates that the specific exposure frame has been exposed in the pseudo magnified photographic mode on the photographic film and is intended to be used in printing process, said photographic camera comprising:distance measuring means for measuring a camera-to-subject distance, which has an extended measurement range having an extreme end distance from the photographic camera shorter than the closest focussing distance of the taking lens by a predetermined distance;lens setting means for setting the taking lens in position between a closest focusing position for said closest focusing distance to a remotest focusing position for an infinity focusing distance for said infinity in accordance with a camera-to-subject distance measured by said distance measuring means; andcontrol means for setting the taking lens in said closest focussing distance and causing a change in photographic mode from the normal photographic mode to the pseudo magnified photographic mode when said distance measuring means detects a camera-to-subject distance between the closest focussing distance and the extreme end distance.