To provide a digital camera for efficiently eliminating dust by utilizing a camera shake correction mechanism.
The digital camera includes the CCD shift mechanism (camera shake correction mechanism) 301 that supports a CCD 27 being an imaging element and moves the imaging element along a face orthogonal to the optical axis of a photographing lens, and a drive means for applying drive control to the CCD shift mechanism 301 and stops a first slider 353 and a second slider 355 of the CCD shift mechanism 301 so as to accelerate the imaging element. As the method of stop giving acceleration, the CCD shift mechanism is pressed into contact (collides) with press contact parts 351a, 351b, 351c, 351d or the CCD shift mechanism, repeats driving and stopping little by little.
WATANABE YOJI
MIKAMI KAZUO
