Patent ID: 8970771
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A waterproof camera comprising: an image pickup section having a photographing lens and an image pickup device; a focusing section that achieves focus on an object image formed on an image pickup plane of the image pickup device by moving the photographing lens or the image pickup device in an optical axis direction of the photographing lens; a semi-underwater photographing mode setting section for setting a semi-underwater photographing mode in which photographing is performed by simultaneously accommodating an object image above water which is an above water side and an object image under water which is an underwater side on the image pickup plane; and a focusing control section that controls focusing position by the focusing section when the semi-underwater photographing mode is set so as to obtain a focus position corresponding to a distance from the image pickup section to the object in consideration of a refractive index under and above the water.