Patent ID: 7689118

Claim:
An image capture apparatus including an electronic view finder assembly comprising: a liquid crystal display device that displays on a display surface an image generated by an image capture element; a back light that illuminates the liquid crystal display device; an optical system that magnifies the image that is to be displayed on the display surface; and a casing comprising: an inner casing that accommodates the liquid crystal display device and the back light, wherein the inner casing is cylindrical in cross-sectional shape and extends in a forward-rearward direction; an outer casing having a cylindrical shape and a cross section larger in size than a cross section of the inner casing, wherein the outer casing extends in the forward-rearward direction; an accommodation spacing that is provided in an interior of the outer casing and that accommodates the inner casing in a state where an extension direction of the inner casing is the same as an extension direction of the outer casing; an opening that is formed in a wall portion of the outer casing extending along the extension direction of the outer casing and that is used to insert the inner casing into the accommodation spacing; a cover that closes the opening; an eye cup portion that accommodates the optical system and that is attached to a rearward end of the outer casing; a stopper that stops forward movement of the inner casing in a state where the inner casing is accommodated in the accommodation spacing and the opening is closed by the cover, the stopper being formed of a stopper wall that is placed in the accommodation spacing and above the cover such that the stopper wall expands in a direction approximately perpendicular to the extension direction of the outer casing, wherein the stopper wall has a stopper face capable of abutting on a forward end of the inner casing, the stopper face being formed of a sloped surface changing in shape towards a side of an interior of the accommodation spacing; and a dust prevention cushion interposed in a compressed state between an overall circumferential periphery of a rearwardly facing wall face of the inner casing and an overall circumferential periphery of a forwardly facing wall face of the outer casing inside the outer casing in a state where the forward movement of the inner casing is stopped by the stopper.