Patent ID: 9167158
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device comprising: an imaging element that images a photographic subject through an imaging lens; a finder including an eyepiece part, a first finder optical system that leads an optical image of the photographic subject to the eyepiece part through a route different from the imaging lens, a display part that can display a captured image of the photographic subject obtained by performing imaging in the imaging element, and a second finder optical system that leads the captured image of the photographic subject displayed at the display part to the eyepiece part; an operation device that can be operated with a finger; a finder switching control device that switches between leading of the optical image of the photographic subject through the first finder optical system of the finder to the eyepiece part of the finder, and display of the captured image of the photographic subject at the display part of the finder and leading of the captured image of the photographic subject through the second finder optical system of the finder to the eyepiece part of the finder; a finder variable magnification control device that changes a magnification of the first finder optical system of the finder; and a control device that switches between leading of the optical image of the photographic subject and leading of the captured image of the photographic subject to the eyepiece part of the finder by the finder switching control device when a first operation is performed by the operation device, and makes the finder variable magnification control device change the magnification of the first finder optical system of the finder when a second operation different from the first operation is performed by the operation device in an optical viewfinder state in which the optical image of the photographic subject is led to the eyepiece part of the finder.