Camera accommodating two sizes of film

Claim 1

In a camera adapted to accommodate film packets of at least two different rectangular sizes with the corresponding shorter sides thereof having substantially the same dimension and the longer sides of the smaller packet being provided with exterior protuberances, the camera having an opaque housing with a lens mounted on the front end thereof and means rearwardly of the lens for loading and unloading individual film packets into the housing interior; a film packet holder fixedly mounted within the housing adjacent the loading and unloading means therefor, said holder comprising an apertured base section positioned in the housing generally parallel to the lens, the aperture in said base section providing means for exposing a portion of the accommodated film packet to the light rays passing through the lens, and first and second peripheral segments extending from said base section and delimiting a rectangular area separated from the lens by said apertured base section; said first peripheral segments defining the shorter sides of the delimited area and being substantially coextensive with the exterior dimension of the shorter side of an accommodated packet, said second peripheral segments defining the longer sides of said delimited area and being provided with recesses for removably receiving the exterior protuberances of an accommodated smaller size packet and cooperating with said second peripheral segments to restrain relative movement of the packet, the distance between said first peripheral segments being substantially the same as the length of the longer side of the larger size packet whereby the latter is adapted to occupy the area delimited by said first and second peripheral segments.