Patent ID: 8111293

Claim:
A photographic apparatus comprising: a movable platform that has an imager that captures an optical image through a taking lens, and is movable and rotatable on an xy plane perpendicular to an optical axis of said taking lens; and a controller that calculates an inclination angle of said photographic apparatus, which is formed by rotation of said photographic apparatus around said optical axis, as measured with respect to a level plane perpendicular to the direction of gravitational force, and performs a controlled movement of said movable platform for an inclination correction based on said inclination angle; said controller calculating a first position of said movable platform before said inclination correction; said controller calculating a second position of said movable platform after said inclination correction; said controller determining whether said movable platform should be moved to a third position before moving from said first position to said second position in said inclination correction, on the basis of a positional relationship between said first position and said second position; said third position being a position of said movable platform in an imaging operation by said imager without said inclination correction; said second position being a position of said movable platform in an imaging operation by said imager with said inclination correction, and being a position whereto said movable platform is rotated without translation from said third position in accordance to said inclination angle.