Patent ID: 8174574

Claim:
An optical apparatus comprising: a lens unit having a zoom lens for zooming and a focus lens for focusing; a zoom actuator for moving the zoom lens in an optical-axis direction; a focus actuator for moving the focus lens in the optical-axis direction; a unit configured to at least one of pan the lens unit and tilt the lens unit; a driving control unit configured to control driving of the unit; a position detection unit configured to detect a position of the zoom lens of the lens unit in the optical-axis direction; a storage portion configured to store information relating to a center shift of a captured image resulting from a position of the zoom lens; and a center-shift correction portion configured to determine a driving amount of the unit necessary for reducing the center shift at the position of the zoom lens detected by the position detection unit based on the detected position of the zoom lens and the information relating to the center shift stored in the storage portion, wherein the driving control unit controls driving of the unit based on the driving amount determined by the center-shift correction portion.