Photographic camera

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The first object of the present invention is to provide a photographic camera which permits a user to easily carry out a manual-to-automatic mode switchover operation of both of the exposure control mode and the focus control mode.
The second object of the invention is to construct the camera in such a way that the camera permits the user to reliably take a photograph in a predetermined mode while eliminating the possibility of inappropriate photography resulting from the user's forgetting to carry out the mode switchover operations after a lens exchange.
In order to accomplish the first object, a photographic camera related to the present invention comprises: focus condition detection means for detecting focus condition of a photographic lens relative to a photographic subject; exposure control means capable of selectively providing a plurality of exposure control modes; exposure mode selecting means for selecting a predetermined exposure control mode from the plurality of exposure control modes; focus control means for selectively providing an autofocus mode in which a focusing is effected automatically based on the focus condition detected by the focus condition detection means and a manual focus mode in which a focusing is effected manually; focus mode selecting means for switching over between the autofocus mode and the manual focus mode; and switching means for switching the focus control means from the manual focus mode to the autofocus mode in response to an exposure mode selecting operation by the exposure mode selecting means.
With the above construction, because of the switching means which switches the focus control mode from the manual focus mode to the autofocus mode in response to an exposure mode selecting operation, even if both of the exposure control mode and the focus control mode are currently set at the manual modes, these modes together may be switched over respectively to the automatic, i.
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programmed exposure control mode and the autofocus control mode by one-step operation of a single operational element such as a switch