Patent ID: 6507711
Filing Date: 2003-01-14
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
A camera which exposes silver-salt film with an object image, comprising:a zoom optical system which forms said object image on said silver-salt film; an image capture element which captures an electronic image of said object image; an image capture optical system which forms said object image on said image capture element, said image capture optical system being provided separately from said zoom optical system, and having an angle of view which covers the broadest image capture angle of view of said zoom optical system; memory which stores the image data of an image capture bounding frame; a signal processing circuit which merges the electronic image captured by said image capture element and the image data of said image capture bounding frame stored in said memory, in which merging is performed after said electronic image has been enlarged by a prescribed enlargement factor which is lower than a zoom factor that is determined based on a value of the focal length of said broadest image capture angle of view of said zoom optical system and a value of the zoomed focal length, and the image data of said image capture bounding frame has been reduced by a prescribed reduction factor; and a monitor device which displays the electronic image merged by said signal processing circuit.