To provide a photographic lens device equipped with a reflecting optical part capable of shortening entire length at the non-photographing time while securing necessary optical path length, and to provide a camera therefor.

The photographic lens device is equipped with the reflecting optical part (6) reflecting an optical path, a plurality of lens groups (7, 8, 9 and 10) arranged so that their optical axes are superposed on the optical axis reflected by the reflecting optical part in a line and having at least one or more moving lens groups capable of moving in an optical axis direction, and moving lens group moving mechanisms (7a, 9a, 13, 16b and 17) moving the moving lens group in the optical axis direction. It is equipped with reflecting optical part moving mechanisms (4a, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21a, 21b, 22 and 24) providing a moving space (a) to which the moving lens group is moved between the reflecting optical part and the moving lens group at the photographing time, and moving the reflecting optical part into the moving space at the non-photographing time.