Compact camera

The generic name of the camera which is a compact according to the name with the compact camera (small size). In the film camera, I may be used as a popular name of the view finder camera for a single-lens reflex camera, a twin-lens reflex camera camera. In the digital camera, lens exchange is often used as a generic name of the impossible camera for lens exchangeable single-lens reflex camera mirrorless one eye camera rangefinder cameras without affecting size state of things. There is it from a cheap model to the high-quality plane for the connoisseur, and there is the thing having the shape that seems to be misleading to call it with a compact among them.

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Lens

It is easy to almost treat the lens, and wide-angle lens - standard lens that depth of field is a relatively deeper angle of view (approximately 30-50mm) installs it and cannot change most models. Many models come to be equipped with a zoom lens later, and the range of the angle of view spreads, too.

Kind of the focus alignment

Adopted focus (focus) laying upon is divided into fixed focus, visual focus zone focus rangefinder autofocus. From the viewpoint of production cost, autofocus tends to be adopted at the camera of the above-mentioned price at a low-priced camera (disposable cameras) to some extent fixed focus (pan-focus).

History

Spread of automatic photography

The photography of the camera had to operate exposure (a shutter speed and diaphragm), each focal element appropriately, and it was said to a person without the technical knowledge that a hurdle was expensive about a photograph, and invention to automate photography operation for many years has been repeated.

Konishiroku Rhoto Industry (のちの Konica, existing Konica Minolta) released world's first automatic exposure camera (AE camera) "Konica AutoS" in April, 1963. A shutter speed and the automation of the diaphragm were realized, and the automation object to leave became the focus operation. Called the AE camera in the meaning with "the camera which took it willingly on a holiday, and was usable" with Vacation Camera in the United States and was prevalent.

On November 30, 1977, Konishiroku Rhoto Industry released world's first autofocus camera "Konica C35AF" in the same way. There was it and advertised "Japanese Agricultural Standards pin Konica" and a nickname, and I was accepted in the wide layer including the woman by a meaning of the just focus. Automation of the focus operation is apt to attract attention from the nickname, but it is an AE camera equipped with automatic exposure mechanism and is the camera which realized automatic photography for the first time in the world by comprising AE, AF together.

Zoom competition and diversification

When all automatic photography became natural, and it was the end of 1980s, a zoom lens came to be put on a compact camera. It was magnification of around 1.5-2 times at first, but the model which the looking into the distance side had 150mm, the focal length such as 200mm toward when it was the late 1990s was released, and each maker competed fiercely. As it were, the model which raised magnification because the wide-angle lens side was expanded appeared, and, as for increasing magnification on the looking into the distance side, various models were able to excite the market.

It is reverse to the high-power zoom, and the pattern that is a single focus and low-power zoom comes to appear for the T series of big mini series and Kyocera / Yashica of Konica equipped with a high-grade lens, the R series of RICOH, the TIARA series of wisteria.

Appearance of the APS compact camera

As for the APS camera which came up in 1996, the spread advanced mainly on a small model by the reduction of the image circle and downsizing of film in itself. Above all, the IXY series of Canon made a hit by the small size body which I was not able to realize with a design with decoration and Japanese yen of the high-grade stainless steel as a motif, the 35mm film camera. A design and the name of IXY were succeeded to a digital camera, and this became the hit, too. The APS compact camera will be screened with the decline of the APS film by the rise of the digital camera.

Compact camera in the digital camera

Because the name of the compact camera in the digital camera had some size with the lens fixation-type small model of the dawn unlike the film era, I came to be used for the lens fixation-type camera whole regardless of size even now. For a lens fixation-type compact camera, the camera possible of the lens exchange is distinguished by the names such as one eye cameras. Therefore, as for some large digital compact cameras, mirrorless one eye cameras and the division in the volume which downsizing went ahead through become vague. The division of the compact camera from the optical surface such as the conventional film camera is difficult, and, in the digital camera, as for the required nature of the optical viewfinder, reasons include that only the removable impossibility of the lens has a classification standard by fading by the deployment of the liquid crystalline finder.

The variation of the digital compact camera loses the condition called the film, and the flexibility on the design including the swivel-style appearance with the rotary lens and the lens mechanism stored lengthwise increases and I increase in the film times and am suggested. In addition, the reduction of the main body advanced in the small model still more, too and was able to carry it more easily.

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High-quality compact camera

The infantility was small size represented by the low rye 35 series or the Olympus XA series, but it was equipped with a high-grade lens, and some freedom worked by manual manipulation, and a subcamera of the photographer professional and the camera that it could be were pioneers.

 

Contax T2

It released Contax T where Kyocera put ゾナー of Carl Zeiss on in 1984 and built the genre called the high-quality compact camera. Succeeding T2 of the release was called the representative model of the high-quality compact camera in 1990 and did a genre that it was strong. T2 had a big influence on other makers, and a lot of following products appeared. These cameras

• It is equipped with a high-quality lens
• High-grade decoration and mechanism
• All automatic cameras are equipped with AE given priority to a diaphragm, selectable plural photometry methods or manual focuses in the times of the heyday

It is the model who gathered など, the technical best of each maker in a small housing and is the model group which deserves to be you if I decorate the heyday of the film era and the end. The model which inherited the concept of the high-quality compact camera such as the RICOH GR digital series and the Contax TVS digital in the digital camera exists. Since the age of sigma DP1 which there was always the product which made much of description performance in particular in the digital camera, but was released in RICOH GR DIGITAL and March, 2007 when what came to be conscious of as a high-quality compact definitely appeared in October, 2005. There is not the clear definition of the high-quality compact digital camera, but the almost following camera is equivalent.

• It carries a relatively large image sensor (as of April, 2014 almost more than a 1/1.7 type)
• Opening F-number of a single focus lens or the wide-angle lens edge being almost brighter than F2.0 degree
• It is equipped with high-grade decoration and function

Main high quality compact camera

Film camera

 

Leica minilux

• The Contax T series, the series that should be called the pioneer of the TVS series - high quality compact camera. I wore titanium decoration from T2. The TVS series is equipped with a zoom lens. The high-quality compact camera of the APS called Tix existed, too.
• The Leica minilux series, the CM - minilux series followed T2 and were planned. Matsushita Electric Industrial undertook the production. CM that could be called the succession was a product in the most latter period in 2003 release and the high-quality compact camera, but production was finished in 2007.
• Nikon 28Ti/38Ti - titanium decoration. The photography information indication with the analog indicator is characteristic. As for the lens, a signature of only ニッコール is turned on in the compact camera of the company.
• The model which declared 35mm film camera world minimum at the time of MINOLTA TC-1 - release. It is equipped with titanium decoration, complete circular tie-dyeing. Carried G-ROKKOR was proud of performance as it was released in a lens simple substance in L mount.
• As well as RICOH GR series - G-ROKKOR lens, the GR lens was released in a simple substance in L mount, too. The form to be mainly lighter than a Patrone of the main body except the grip part was. The magnesium die-casting that the body of the GR1 series is solid.

Digital camera

• The compact digital camera which was equipped with Sony Cyber-shot - DSC-RX1 world first 35mm full size CMOS sensor.

I it about a name

The name called "a stupid jun camera" was used generally until the early 1980s.

• There is the opinion such as follows in the etymology.
  1. In the equivalent of the English fool proof, it is the meaning called "the camera which is usable without minding the adjustment of a diaphragm and the shutter speed even if I do not know how to use camera" that is the program EE (a name.current program AE) "camera that ばかでもちょんでも is usable" with it.
  2. A hearing mistake of the opinion which performed a Japanese reading of the Japanese word spelt in the Roman alphabet (vacation camera) of the vacation camera or the English pronunciation.
  3. Without needing the technical knowledge such as F-number, depth of field, a shutter speed, the electronic flash; with "even a fool (with a shutter) jun will of can photograph it if push it"

About 1 opinion, it was said, "I point at "jun" "Prince that "ちょん" was the derogatory term for the Korean" jun", and, as for the name of "the stupid jun camera", use came to be restrained from (the expression "stupid jun" becomes "the broadcast prohibition term" due to this ethnic discrimination, and the detailed statement refers to fool jun). However, a worthless person is the derogatory term that likened a worthless person to the sound of clappers, and "ちょん" used in real "fool jun" is used as Japanese for a long time. There is not the meaning to look down upon a Korean for the etymology particularly (great dictionary second edition example "fool or ちょんだの" reference).

In addition, I may abbreviate a digital compact camera to "コンデジ" (elsewhere "パクデジ" "デジコン").

Allied item

• Disposable camera (disposable camera)
• Pocket camera (110 cameras)
• Disk camera
• Girly photo
• HIROMIX

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