To provide a user-friendly camera easily operable in both cases where it is operated by the right hand or left hand.

A finder window 2, a stroboscope 3, and a zoom lens 4 or the like are provided on a body 1 incorporating a shutter or a film feeding mechanism. A release operation part 5 to perform release operation is provided on the front surface 11 of the body 1, and a zoom operation part 6 to perform operation for changing the magnification of a zoom lens 4 is provided on the back surface 12 of the body 1. The operation parts 5 and 6 are constituted so that an operation area being an area where operation is performed while it is touched by a human's finger in the case of operation is long in the height direction of the body 1 and the center of the operation area exists in the center of the height direction of the body 1. The operation parts 5 and 6 exist at the same-distance positions from either side end of the body 1.