Patent ID: 8174606
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital photographing apparatus comprising: a lens unit through which light bouncing off a subject to be photographed passes; an imaging device generating image data when the light that passed through the lens unit is incident thereon; a main mirror disposed between the lens unit and the imaging device, wherein the position of the main mirror can be changed so that the main mirror either reflects at least part of the light which passed through the lens unit in a first direction, or the main mirror is not positioned on a path of the light which passed through the lens unit such that the light can be incident onto the imaging device; a prism unit located in the first direction so that light reflected by the main mirror is incident onto the prism unit and is output in a second direction when at least part of the light which passed through the lens unit is reflected by the main mirror; a viewfinder located in the second direction so that at least part of light output from the prism unit passes through the viewfinder; and an image sensor for live view, disposed on one surface of the prism unit.