Patent ID: 7262803

Claim:
An optical apparatus comprising: an optical system which includes a focus lens and forms an object image; an image-pickup device which receives the object image formed by the optical system and photoelectrically converts the object image; a focusing state calculating circuit which derives information indicating a focusing state of the optical system based on an output signal from an image-pickup area which corresponds to part of the image-pickup device; a storage circuit which stores a position of the image-pickup area in the image-pickup device; and a setting system which moves the image-pickup area, stores a position of the image-pickup area in the storage circuit, and sets the image-pickup area which has been stored in the storage circuit as the image-pickup area in performing focus adjustment control, wherein the setting system comprises, a first switch which is operated to instruct the image-pickup area in the image-pickup device to be moved; a second switch which is operated to instruct a position of the image-pickup area to be stored in the storage circuit; a third switch which is operated to instruct the image-pickup area to be switched; a fourth switch which is operated to instruct an initial position of the image-pickup area to be stored in the storage circuit; and a control circuit which performs the focus adjustment control by driving the focus lens based on the information derived by the focusing state calculating circuit and is electrically connected to the first switch, the second switch, the third switch and the fourth switch to operate in accordance with a state of each of the switches, wherein the control circuit moves the image-pickup area in response to operation of the first switch, the control circuit stores, in response to operation of the second switch, the position of the image-pickup area selected at the time of that operation in the storage circuit, the control circuit sets the image-pickup area which has been stored in the storage circuit in accordance with a state of the third switch in performing the focus adjustment control, the control circuit assigns, in response to the operation of the fourth switch, the position of the image-pickup area selected at the time of that operation to a state of the third switch and stores that position in the storage circuit as the initial position, and at the time of power-on of the optical apparatus, in accordance with the state of the third switch, the control circuit sets the image-pickup area assigned to that state and stored in the storage circuit as the image-pickup area in the focus adjustment control.