Patent ID: 7903961

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 an inclination correction based on an inclination angle of said photographic apparatus formed by rotation of said photographic apparatus around said optical axis, as measured with respect to a level plane perpendicular to the direction of gravitational force, for a first stabilization for correcting hand shake caused by yaw around the y direction, and for a second stabilization for correcting hand shake caused by pitch around the x direction, said x direction being perpendicular to said optical axis, and said y direction being perpendicular to said x direction and said optical axis; said controller performing a determination of whether said inclination correction is to be performed, on the basis of a firsthand-shake quantity caused by yaw that is calculated for said first stabilization, a second hand-shake quantity caused by pitch that is calculated for said second stabilization, and said inclination angle.