Camera apparatus

Claim 1

A KNOCK-DOWN CAMERA EMBODYING A PLURALITY OF INTERCHANGEABLE COMPONENTS FOR PHOTOGRAPHING, WITH EXTREME ACCURACY OF FOCUS AND EXPOSURE, A WIDE VARIETY OF OBJECTS AT GIVEN SHORT-RANGE DISTANCES IN MINUTE DETAIL AT A PREDETERMINED MAGNIFICATION OR OTHER GIVEN DIMENSIONAL RATIO OF LIKE IMAGE AND OBJECT PORTIONS, COMPRISIN A REAR HOUSING SECTION ADAPTED TO CARRY A PHOTOSENSITIVE FILM MATERIAL AND POSITION IT FOR EXPOSURE AT A FOCAL PLANE, A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUALLY SELECTABLE FRONT HOUSING SECTIONS EACH INCORPORATING A LENS OF RELATIVELY DIFFERENT FOCAL LENGTH, EXPOSURE MECHANISM AND ACTUATING MEANS THEREFOR INCORPORATED WITH EACH SELECTED ONE OF SAID FRONT SECTIONS, A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUALLY SELECTABLE MEANS RELEASABLY-ATTACHABLE TO A GIVEN ONE OF SAID SECTIONS FOR ESTABLISHING A GIVEN SPACING BETWEEN SAID LENS AND SAID OBJECT TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED, AND A PLURALITY OF MANUALLY-OPERABLE LATCHING MEANS INCORPORATED WITH AND PREDETERMINEDLY DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN SAID SECTIONS FOR ASSEMBLY, DISASSEMBLY AND INTERCHANGE THEREOF, COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-ENGAGEABLE FIXED AND MOVABLE LATCH MEMBERS, THE LENGTH OF AN OPTICAL AXIS EXTENDING WITHIN SAID REAR SECTION AND SAID SELECTED FRONT SECTION, ALONG WHICH IMAGEPRODUCING LIGHT RAYS ARE TRANSMITTED, WHEN TAKEN WITH THE FOCAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LENS OF A SELECTED FRONT SECTION AND THE DISTANCE PROVIDED BY SAID SPACING MEANS, DETERMINING SAID GIVEN MAGNIFICATION AND OTHER DIMENSIONAL RATIO OF IMAGE AND OBJECT PORTIONS, SAID EXPOSURE MECHANISM COMPRISING A PISTOL GRIP RELEASABLY-ATTACHED TO SAID REAR HOUSING SECTION AND A SHUTTER-RELEASE ELEMENT IN THE FORM OF A TRIGGER WHICH IS LINKED TO SHUTTER-RELEASE MECHANISM AND PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON EACH OF SAID SELECTABLE FRONT SECTIONS AT A LOCATION HAVING A GIVEN ADJACENCY TO SAID PISTOL GRIP OF SAID REAR SECTION WHEN SAID REAR AND FRONT SECTIONS ARE BROUGHT TO MUTUALLY ASSEMBLED RELATION.