JP2007049381A5 - - Google Patents

Claims (4)

A main body having a medium storing means for storing an information medium;
A lens that collects the optical signal, and a lens barrel supported by the main body;
Imaging means for converting an optical signal incident through the lens into a video signal and outputting the video signal;
A display housing having a display unit capable of displaying the video signal output from the imaging means;
An operation means that is disposed on a surface of the lens barrel that is perpendicular to the optical axis center of the lens and that faces the surface on which the lens is disposed;
A photographic apparatus comprising:
The lens barrel is pivotally supported on one outer wall of the main body in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis center of the lens, and includes a rotating shaft that can be rotated so that the direction of the lens is reversed. .   The photographing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a relative positional relationship between the lens barrel and the imaging unit is maintained before and after the lens barrel rotates around the rotation axis.   A first support shaft disposed substantially parallel to the optical axis of the lens that rotates the display housing in the first rotation direction, and the display housing is orthogonal to the first rotation direction. And a second support shaft disposed perpendicular to the first support shaft that rotates in a second rotation direction, and a storage portion that stores the display housing in the main body. 1. The photographing apparatus according to 1. The display housing is
Arranged at the top of the lens barrel,
The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a display surface of the display unit is arranged on a surface orthogonal to a surface formed by an optical axis center of the lens and the rotation axis.