Patent ID: 8279293

Claim:
An image stabilizing apparatus comprising: a base member; a first member configured to be shiftable with respect to the base member in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis direction; a first actuator configured to shift the first member with respect to the base member; an image-pickup element constituted by a photoelectrical conversion element; a second member configured to hold the image-pickup element, and configured to be shiftable together with the first member in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction and rotatable with respect to the first member in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis direction, wherein the second member is provided with a protruding portion extending in the optical axis direction; a damper mechanism configured to attenuate shift of the protruding portion in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction and rotation thereof in the plane orthogonal to the optical axis direction; a second actuator configured to rotate the second member with respect to the first member.