Compact camera design to make more effective use of the interior space thereof

摘要

A camera comprising a photographic optical system; an aperture formed behind the photographic optical system in order to limit a range of subject light irradiated to a film surface; a cartridge chamber lying on one side of the aperture so as to accommodate a small-sized film cartridge containing film that is smaller than rolled film of 35 mm width, in which a film cartridge is stowed so that a built-in take-up axis thereof is oriented substantially in parallel with the height of the camera; a take-up chamber lying on the other side of the aperture so as to wind in a portion of film that has been fed from the film cartridge stowed in the cartridge chamber in the lateral direction of the camera and has passed behind the aperture; a light projecting optical system lying above the take-up chamber to distribute light to be used for range finding toward an object to be photographed; and a light receiving optical system lying below the take-up chamber to receive light having emanated from the light projecting optical system and being reflected from the object to be photographed.