Patent ID: 7747152

Claim:
A lens barrel, comprising: a vibration reduction mechanism comprising a vibration reduction lens and a drive device that drives the vibration reduction lens, so as to compensate for image vibration; and a shutter unit for exposure control, wherein: the drive device and the shutter unit are arranged so as to at least partially to overlap in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens barrels the drive device comprises a pair of voice coil motors, with each of the voice coil motors comprising a drive magnet and a coil; positions of the coils in a direction of the optical axis substantially correspond to a position of the shutter unit in a direction of the optical axis; and the coils are disposed below the shutter unit with respect to the direction orthogonal to the optical axis so as to form a V-shape by arranging the coils to be perpendicular to one another.