Patent ID: 7391460

Claim:
A camera comprising: a picture-taking lens unit including a picture-taking optical system having a bending optical system which optically bends incident light and including a pre-bending optical system and a post-bending optical system; and an optical finder unit including a finder optical system having a bending optical system which optically bends incident light and including a pre-bending optical system and a post-bending optical system, wherein the picture-taking lens unit has such an outside shape that a length thereof in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the pre-bending optical system in the bending optical system in the picture taking optical system is shorter than a length thereof in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the pre-bending optical system, wherein the optical finder unit has such an outside shape that a length thereof in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the pre-bending optical system in the bending optical system in the finder optical system and a length thereof in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the pre-bending optical system are equal to the lengths in the picture-taking lens unit, respectively, and wherein the picture-taking lens unit and the optical finder unit are arranged close to each other such that the pre-bending optical system and the post-bending optical system of the bending optical system in the finder optical system are arranged adjacent to the pre-bending optical system and the post-bending optical system of the bending optical system in the picture-taking optical system, respectively.