Patent ID: 7974019

Claim:
An image capturing device, comprising: an image capturing device body; a lens barrel having an entrance window and a refractive optical system that bends subject light incident from the entrance window to form an image thereof on an imaging element, the lens barrel being housed in the image capturing device body in such a manner that the lens barrel is capable of protruding from and retracting into the image capturing device body; an image taking button disposed on the image capturing device body; and a plate which is integrally formed on the lens barrel and covers the image taking button when the lens barrel is housed in the image capturing device body, wherein the lens barrel is capable of being expanded and contracted along an optical axis extending toward the imaging element, the entrance window is located at an in-use position where the entrance window protrudes from the image capturing device body when the lens barrel is expanded, and the entrance window is located at a not-in-use position where the entrance window is housed in the image capturing device body when the lens barrel is contracted, an optical axis of the entrance window is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis along which the lens barrel and the entrance window move when the lens barrel is expanded and contracted, and the entrance window faces the same direction as a front face of the image capturing device body.