Patent ID: 7006764

Claim:
A camera comprising: a body; a capture unit mounted in said body, said capture unit having an imager and storage media operatively connected to said imager, said capture unit selectively capturing an electronic image of a scene; a viewfinder displaying a light image of said scene; a variable print aspect ratio cropper disposed in said body, said cropper being switchable among a plurality of settings, each said setting defining a different print aspect ratio for a rectangular cross-sectioned window in said viewfinder; and a cropping control operatively connected to said capture unit and said cropper, said cropping control having a cropping input element accessible external to said body, said cropping input element being movable between first and second opposed cropping control positions and a plurality of intermediate cropping control positions therebetween to change said settings, each position corresponding to a different one of said settings, said cropping control positions defining a cropping control axis perpendicular to an optical axis of said capture unit.