Patent ID: 8638365

Claim:
A camera apparatus, comprising: a base; an outer case for rotation around a first imaginary axis which passes said base; an inner case provided on said outer case for rotation around a second imaginary axis extending on a plane intersecting with the first imaginary axis; a camera section incorporated in said inner case and having an image pickup optical system; a first driving section for rotating said outer case; a second driving section for rotating said inner ease; a control section for controlling the first driving section and the second driving section; a conversion lens supported on said outer case; and changeover video signal production means for producing a video signal for causing a monitor to display a changeover screen image in response to the control section controlling the second driving section to move said inner case rotationally between a conversion lens use position and a conversion lens non-use range, said inner case being rotated by said second driving section between the conversion lens use position at which an optical axis of said image pickup optical system is aligned with an optical axis of said conversion lens and the conversion lens non-use range within which an optical path of said image pickup optical system is displaced from said conversion lens.