Patent ID: 7688354

Claim:
An image stabilizer for counteracting image shake of an object image formed on an image pickup device by moving said image pickup device, said image stabilizer comprising: an image-pickup-device holding member which holds said image pickup device; a guide device which guides said image-pickup-device holding member in a manner to allow said image-pickup-device holding member to move linearly in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis; a driving device which applies a moving force which moves said image-pickup-device holding member in a guide direction of said guide device to a force receiving portion on said image-pickup-device holding member; and a flexible printed wiring board which extends from said image pickup device, a part of said flexible printed wiring board being fixed to said image-pickup-device holding member at a fixing position thereon, wherein a distance between said fixing position and said force receiving portion is smaller than a distance between said guide device and said force receiving portion in a direction orthogonal to both said optical axis direction and said guide direction of said guide device.