Patent ID: 6349176
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
A photographic system comprising:a photographic camera, including: a camera body, a first housing disposed in the camera body for housing a photographic film cartridge, a second housing disposed in the camera body for housing a photographic film drawn from the photographic film cartridge, a detector disposed between the first and the second housings for detecting a hole on a marginal area along one edge of the photographic film and for generating a hole detecting signal, wherein said hole is substantially 0.75 mm away from the one edge, film drive means disposed in the camera body for driving the photographic film, control means disposed in the camera body including a micro-computer electrically connected to the detector and a selector switch for controlling the film drive means to feed a constant length of the photographic film for each frame in response to the hole detecting signal and for receiving a selection signal from the selector switch and generating an aspect ratio signal, exposing means disposed between the first and the second housings for exposing an image of a subject onto a frame on the photographic film, recording means disposed in the camera body for recording the aspect ratio signal and a printer control signal on another marginal area formed between the frame and another edge of the photographic film, wherein a length of the other marginal area in a film-width direction is substantially 2.5 mm; and a photographic printer for printing onto a photosensitive print paper an exposed image of the subject recorded on a processed photographic film using the photographic camera, including: a printer body, a light source and a variable width mask for exposing the photosensitive print paper, detecting means disposed on the printer body for detecting the aspect ratio signal and the printer control signal recorded on the other marginal area formed between the other edge of the photographic film and an exposed frame, processed photographic film drive control means disposed on the printer body for controlling driving of the processed photographic film, logic circuit means for determining whether the aspect ratio signal corresponds to a first aspect format or a second aspect format, and printing means disposed on the printer body for varying a width of an opening of the variable width mask used to expose the image of the subject on the frame in accordance with the determined aspect format, wherein a plurality of processed photographic films are spliced to each other, and the drive control means controls the driving of the processed photographic film in response to the printer control signal recorded by the recording means of the photographic camera, and the printer control signal indicating the frame to be printed.