Patent ID: 6907194

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 defining a capture light path to said imager for selectively capturing an electronic image of a scene; a viewfinder optical system aligned with said capture unit, said viewfinder optical system defining a viewfinder light path separate from said capture light path; a cropper disposed in said body, said cropper having a pair of vanes, said vanes being selectively movable, relative to each other, between first and second positions and through a continuous sequence of intermediate positions between said first and second positions, said vanes, in each of said positions, delimiting a rectangular cross-sectioned window in said viewfinder light path; and a control unit operatively connected to said capture unit and said cropper, said control unit cropping said electronic image to match said window.