Patent ID: 7403706

Claim:
A camera which has an image-taking optical system and an image pickup device, and generates image data by forming object images on the image pickup device by the image-taking optical system, the camera comprising: a self-timer mode for performing actual image-taking predetermined seconds after preparatory image-taking operation; a flash emission section that emits light in sync with image-taking; a self-timer light-emitting indicator section which notifies a user that image-taking in the self-timer mode is about to start and is aligned with the flash emission section away from the image-taking optical system; a housing having an opening for the image-taking optical system through which the image-taking optical system appears, and a first opening through which both the flash emission section and the self-timer light-emitting indicator section appear; and a slide door which opens and closes the opening for the image-taking optical system by sliding laterally over a front of the housing, and which has a second opening with a cover with light-diffusing and transmitting property, the second opening being arranged in front of the flash emission section and the self-timer light-emitting indicator section with the cover arranged in front of the self-timer light-emitting indicator section, when the slide door is opened, wherein the opening for the image-taking optical system, the first and second openings and the amount of slide of the slide door are arranged such that, when the slide door is closed, part of the first opening overlaps with part of the second opening and the overlapped part of the first opening is shielded by the cover provided in the second opening.