Patent ID: 7899313

Claim:
A photographic apparatus comprising: a movable platform which has an imager that captures an optical image through a taking lens, and is movable and rotatable in an xy plane perpendicular to an optical axis of said taking lens; and a controller that performs a movement control of said movable platform for one of a translational movement and a rotational movement, said translational movement including at least one of a first stabilization for correcting hand shake caused by yaw around the y direction and a second stabilization for correcting hand shake caused by pitch around the x direction, said x direction being perpendicular to said optical axis, said y direction being perpendicular to said x direction and said optical axis, said rotational movement rotating said movable platform in said xy plane; said controller determining which of said translational movement and said rotational movement is to be performed, on the basis of a first hand-shake parameter caused by yaw that is calculated for said first stabilization and a second hand-shake parameter caused by pitch that is calculated for said second stabilization.