Patent ID: 7170558

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: a camera body which is generally rectangular parallelepiped in shape, in which the camera body has a front surface wall that is opposite to an object and that has an opening part, and in which thickness of the camera body in a direction in which the front surface wall is opposite to the object is smaller than height of the camera body and is smaller than width of the camera body; an image taking element having a light receiving surface; an image taking optical unit disposed inside the camera body and including at least one lens element, said image taking optical unit forming an image of the object on the light receiving surface of said image taking element; a first reflection member which is mounted inside said image taking optical unit, in which the first reflection member has a first reflection surface for generally perpendicularly bending a first optical axis of light which is incident through the opening part of the camera body, and in which the first optical axis of light is generally perpendicular to the front surface wall of the camera body; and a second reflection member which is mounted inside said image taking optical unit, in which the second reflection member has a second reflection surface for bending a second optical axis of light having been bent by the first reflection surface, into a third optical axis of light, and in which each of the second optical axis and the third optical axis is generally in parallel with the front surface wall of the camera body; wherein said image taking element is disposed so as to cross the third optical axis of light, and wherein at least one lens element is provided between the opening part of the camera body and the light receiving surface of the image taking element.