Patent ID: 8632265

Claim:
A shutter device that is mounted to a camera body, the shutter device comprising: a base plate that has an opening formed therethrough; a shutter blade configured to move between a position for closing the opening and a position for opening the opening; a drive lever configured to pivot with respect to the base plate to thereby drive the shutter blade in a direction of closing the opening, the drive lever having an armature; a drive spring configured to urge the drive lever; and a yoke configured to magnetically attract and hold the armature, wherein the shutter device releases the armature from a state attracted and held by the yoke to allow the drive lever to pivot by an urging force of the drive spring, the shutter blade being driven in the direction of closing the opening, wherein when the shutter device is in a state assembled to the camera body, an attracting surface of the armature to the yoke extends in a direction perpendicular to a bottom surface of the camera body and is disposed closer to the bottom of the camera body than a pivotal axis about which the drive lever pivots is, and wherein when the armature is released from the state attracted and held by the yoke, the drive lever is caused to pivot by the urging force of the drive spring toward a top of the camera body from a bottom side of the camera body.