Patent ID: 8478122

Claim:
An image taking system comprising: an optical path splitting element that splits beams coming from an object into transmitted beams and reflected beams; and first and second lens apparatuses into which the two bundles of beams split by the optical path splitting element enter, wherein each of the first and second lens apparatuses comprises an image blur reduction unit that shifts an object image in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis to reduce image blur, a vibration detector that detects vibration of the lens apparatus, a command signal generator that generates a command signal for driving the image blur reduction unit, a driving unit that drives the image blur reduction unit based on the command signal, and a communication unit that sends/receives image stabilization information generated by the vibration detector to/from the other lens apparatus, and the command signal generator of the second lens apparatus generates a command signal based on the image stabilization information obtained from the first lens apparatus through the communication unit.