Patent ID: 7597490
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera, comprising: a photographing optical system configured to perform a photographing operation and accommodated in a camera body of the camera, the photographing optical system having a photographing optical axis perpendicular to a thickness dimension of the camera body and the photographing optical axis extending from a photographing object side plane; a release button configured to actuate the photographing operation of the photographing optical system, said release button being provided on a side surface of the camera body in the photographing object side plane and configured to receive an actuation force substantially parallel with respect to the photographing optical axis; and an electronic display part which is at least a portion of a top surface of the camera body, the top surface being in a plane which is parallel to the photographing optical axis, and said electronic display part including an electronic display and being openable with respect to the camera body.