Patent ID: 7372504

Claim:
A camera comprising: a picture-taking lens for photographing a subject; and a first picture-taking operating device and a second picture-taking operating device operated to input instructions to perform different picture-taking operations, wherein said first picture-taking operating device is placed in a rear surface of a camera body; said second picture-taking operating device is placed in a front surface of the camera body; and each of said first and second picture-taking operating devices is provided so that its operating direction is parallel to the optical axis of said picture-taking lens, wherein one of said first and second picture-taking operating devices is a moving-picture-taking button depressed at the time of moving picture taking; the other of said first and second picture-taking operating devices is a still-picture-taking button depressed at the time of still picture taking; and each of said moving-picture-taking button and said still-picture-taking button is provided so that the direction in which the button is depressed is parallel to the optical axis of said picture-taking lens, and wherein when both said moving-picture-taking button and said still-picture-taking button are operated to be simultaneously in the on states, moving picture data obtained by photographing the subject is recording on a predetermined recording medium with priority over still picture data.