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Abstract

A camera in use with a photographic film in a cartridge. The camera includes: a cartridge chamber for accommodating the cartridge, in which the cartridge includes a spool and a bar code disk; a regulation member for regulating a location of the spool in the cartridge chamber; a regulation member release for releasing a regulation of the location of the spool by the regulation member; a driving shaft for being coupled with the spool to rotate it; a generator circuit for generating reference pulse signals which correspond to a rotation cycle of the spool; a bar code reader for reading a bar code on the bar code disk in rotation so as to obtain film information respectively from each unit block of the bar code; and a controller for controlling the bar code reader in synchronism with the reference pulse signals so as to obtain the film information when the driving shaft is coupled with the spool and the photographic film is being loaded to a photographic position where a first frame of the photographic film is subjected for picture taking with the camera.

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