Patent ID: 7697033

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: a control circuit to suppress image blur which calculates a movement amount of an image imaged on an image pick up device as target information by detecting camera shake with a camera shake detection circuit, moves the image pick-up device in a transverse direction to a photographing optical axis based on the calculated target information, detects an actual position of the image pick-up device by a position detection device, sets displacement information according to a displacement from a reference position of the image pick-up device based on detection information detected by the position detection device, and moves the image pick-up device to follow the image moved by the camera shake based on a difference between the displacement information and the target information, the control circuit including: a feedback circuit which controls the image pick-up device in a direction where the difference between the displacement information and the target information reduces; a setting circuit which sets the displacement information; and a storing device configured to store reference positional information showing that the image pick up device is in the reference position, wherein the setting circuit is configured to store reference positional information showing that the image pick up device exists in the reference position and the image pick-up device is in the reference position based on positional detection information when the position of the image pick up device is not controlled, in the storing device.