Patent ID: 7046286

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus having an approximately rectangular parallelepiped shape extending longer in a height direction of a body thereof in an image pickup state, said image pickup apparatus comprising: a display part of an approximately rectangular shape disposed on a side face of the image pickup apparatus body and having a display plane to display a picked-up image; and a moving member for enabling said display part to move between a first position in which said display part makes the picked-up image viewable and a second position in which said display part is stowed in the image pickup apparatus body, wherein, when said display part is in the second position, an image pickup optical axis of the image pickup apparatus body is approximately parallel with said display plane and a major-side direction of said display plane coincides with a major-side direction of the image pickup apparatus body, and when said display part is in the first position, a minor-side direction of said display plane coincides with the major-side direction of the image pickup apparatus body.