Patent ID: 7479985

Claim:
An optical apparatus having an image taking lens comprising: a shake sensor for detecting shake in said optical apparatus and outputting a shake signal in accordance with the shake; a shake correcting lens disposed in said image taking lens and moving in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of said image taking lens in accordance with the shake signal in order to correct the shake of the image; an image pickup device that is disposed on an imaging plane of said image taking lens, has an imaging area for converting an optical image generated by said image taking lens into an electrical signal, and outputs the electrical signal from the imaging area as a picture signal; and controlling means for varying a correction amount of light quantity among a plurality of pixels in the imaging area such that a light quantity of the whole imaging area becomes a uniform light quantity distribution in a state in which the shake of the image is being corrected, and for not varying the correction amount in a state in which the shake of the image is not being corrected.