Patent ID: 8098325

Claim:
A digital camera having: an optical housing having a generally flat shape, having a bending optical system for reflecting photographic object light entering along a first optical axis to a second optical axis direction perpendicular to the first optical axis and forming an optical image on an image pickup device located on the second optical axis; a camera main body having a containing portion containing the optical housing such that the optical housing is displacable; a thin plate in a shape of a thin flat plate, having a plane perpendicular to a plane including the first optical axis of the bending optical system, and fixed to the containing portion of the camera main body; a shock absorbing member in a shape of a thin flat plate, provided between an outer surface portion of the optical housing and the thin plate, and fixed to both of the outer surface portion of the optical housing and the thin plate, wherein, when the camera main body receives shock from the outside and the optical housing is to be displaced with respect to the thin plate fixed to the containing portion of the camera main body in a plane perpendicular to the first optical axis, shock force received by the optical housing is absorbed by shearing force generated in the shock absorbing member.