Patent ID: 8111316

Claim:
A video camera, comprising: a camera body having air outlet holes and air inlet holes, either the air outlet holes or the air inlet holes being disposed in a panel-facing surface of the camera body; a duct, disposed inside the camera body, configured to guide air taken in through the air inlet holes to the air outlet holes; an image sensor disposed inside the camera body; a heat sink configured to release heat generated by the image sensor into the duct; and an image display panel unit having an image display panel, the image display panel unit being movably disposed between a first position in which a first face including a display screen faces the panel-facing surface of the camera body and a second position in which a second face in back of the first face faces the panel-facing surface of the camera body, and wherein the image display panel unit is configured such that airflow resistance through the air outlet holes or the air inlet holes in the panel-facing surface is lower when the image display panel is in the second position than when the image display panel is in the first position.