A camera and method provide image cropping. The camera has a body and a capture
unit mounted in the body. The capture unit has an imager and storage media operatively
connected to the imager. The capture unit selectively captures an electronic image
of a scene. A viewfinder optical system is aligned with the capture unit. The viewfinder
optical system defines a viewfinder light path. A cropper is disposed in the body.
The cropper has a pair of vanes. The vanes are selectively movable, relative to
each other, between first and second positions and through a continuous sequence
of intermediate positions between the first and second positions. The vanes, in
each of the positions, delimits a rectangular cross-sectioned window in the viewfinder
light path. A control unit is operatively connected to the capture unit and cropper.
The control unit crops the electronic image to match the window.
