Patent ID: 6879346

Claim:
A digital camera with spindle capable of positioning, in which one end of a spindle is fixed to a lens end and the other attached to a main body end of the digital camera such that the lens end is permitted to rotate for view finding freely, and the spindle comprises: a shaft sleeve, which is a hollow cylinder, having a plurality of lateral ears with a fixing hole each for setting the shaft sleeve to the digital camera by locking pieces; and a shaft carrier having a rotation post and an ear rack, in which the rotation post is substantially a cylinder to be inserted in the shaft sleeve; a plurality of set holes is perforated in the ear rack for setting the shaft carrier on the digital camera with locking pieces; in which a pair of arcuate columns is formed in the top end of the rotation post; a protruding rib is arranged on the top end of each arcuate column; a projecting dot is resided on each projecting rib; and a plurality of dimples corresponding to the dots is formed in the top rim of the shaft sleeve such that the projecting dots would be snap-engaged to the corresponding dimples to obtain a positioning effect of the lens end when the rotation post is sheathed and turned in the shaft sleeve.