Camera with information transmitting elements

摘要

A camera has a camera body with a lens receiving mount, an interchangeable lens having a mount removably engageable with the camera body mount, and a plurality of information transmitting elements. The plurality of information transmitting elements comprise a light source in the camera body, light receivers in the camera body corresponding to the respective elements, optical fibers in the camera body corresponding to the respective elements for coupling light from the source to the lens receiving mount and from the lens receiving mount to the receivers, and light transmitters in the lens for returning light associated with the optical fibers of selected elements to the light receivers of the selected elements. The selected elements represent information transferred from the lens to the camera body.