Patent ID: 7899319

Claim:
A camera capable of displaying a live view, the camera comprising: a movable reflecting mirror made movable by the rotation of a motor between a viewing position for reflecting a light beam from a photographing lens to guide the light beam to a finder optical system, and a position retracted from an area through which the light beam from the photographing lens passes; an image pickup device arranged behind the movable reflecting mirror to receive a subject light beam from the photographing lens in order to capture a subject image when the movable reflecting mirror is at the retracted position; an image display part for displaying the subject image captured by the image pickup device; a focusing sensor for focusing the photographing lens on a subject; a reflecting mirror for focusing to guide the light beam from the photographing lens to the focusing sensor in conjunction with the movable reflecting mirror when the movable reflecting mirror is at the viewing position; an automatic focus control mechanism for driving the photographing lens to an in-focus position based on the output of the focusing sensor; a shutter arranged between the movable reflecting mirror and the image pickup device; and a drive mechanism which, upon focusing the photographing lens while displaying a moving image acquired from the image pickup device on the image display part, actuates the automatic focusing control mechanism, drives the movable reflecting mirror to the retracted position, and drives the movable reflecting mirror to the viewing position without charging the shutter, wherein the drive mechanism includes a mirror drive cam and a shutter charge cam, and the mirror drive cam and the shutter charge cam are cam members rotating integrally with each other.