Patent ID: 7292282

Claim:
A digital camera, comprising: a camera body which has an image pickup device and an eyepiece of an optical finder, wherein the image pickup device and the eyepiece are adjacent; a lens unit which holds a taking lens and an objective lens of the optical finder, wherein the taking lens and the objective lens are adjacent; and a popping up mechanism which projects and retracts the lens unit from and in the camera body, wherein: the camera body has a first light shielding wall which divides the image pickup device from the eyepiece; the lens unit has a second light shielding wall which divides the taking lens from the optical finder; and when the lens unit is popped up, the first light shielding wall and the second light shielding wall slightly overlap each other, or an end surface of the first light shielding wall and an end surface of the second light shielding wall are flush with each other, thereby preventing a light that enters the optical finder from entering the image pickup device, wherein the first light shielding wall comprises a surrounding wall that surrounds the image pickup device and an additional wall disposed between the eyepiece and the surrounding wall, wherein the second light shielding wall comprises a pair of walls disposed between the taking lens and the optical finder, so that the pair of walls are placed between the surrounding wall and the additional wall.