Patent ID: 8311403

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a photographing optical system configured to image a subject image; an image pickup device configured to obtain the subject image as electrical signals; an image blur correction mechanism configured to control an applied current so as to position and electrically hold the image pickup device at an arbitrary position in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the photographing optical system to correct image blur; a holding mechanism having a holding member, the holding mechanism having a state capable of being switched between a holding state where the holding member is engaged with the image blur correction mechanism so as to mechanically hold the image pickup device by mechanically controlling a movement of the image pickup device and a released state where the engagement of the holding member with the image blur correction mechanism is released, the holding mechanism being set to the holding state when the image blur correction mechanism is not operated; a controller configured to control the image blur correction mechanism and the holding mechanism; and a position detection device configured to detect a position of the image pickup device, wherein the holding mechanism has a positioning mechanism having an elastic member configured to bias the holding member to position the image pickup device from a held position where the image pickup device is held in the holding state to an original position where the image pickup device is to be electrically held by the image blur correction mechanism, the controller executes a deviation eliminating operation in which the holding mechanism is set to have the released state when the imaging apparatus is actuated and thereafter the holding mechanism is set to the holding state, the controller judges whether or not a movement amount of the image pickup device from the held position to the original position is a threshold amount or more, based on output from the position detection device, and the controller executes the deviation eliminating operation if it is judged that the movement amount of the image pickup device is the threshold amount or more.