PURPOSE: To effectively photograph a subject without holding a video camera by drawing out a leg body of a stand mechanism built in a single body with the camera to lock the leg body by a link member at a prescribed position, by making the camera stand by itself via the support part of the leg body, and by forming a screw hole at the bottom part of the camera together with a face-on hole formed to the leg body respectively.
CONSTITUTION: A leg body 18 is attached to the bottom part of a video camera 4. One of both end parts of the body 18 is rotatably supported by a shaft and the other end part serves as a support part of the camera 4 respectively. Then the body 18 of a stand mechanism built in a body with the camera 4 is drawn out and hooked by a link member 31 at a prescribed position, and the camera 4 can stand by itself via the support part of the body 18. Thus a person can photograph a subject without holding the camera 4. Furthermore a screw hole is formed at the bottom part of the camera 4 and at the same time a face-on hole is formed to the body 18 to expose the screw hole of the camera 4. Thus a panhead attachment part of a tripod is secured. In such a constitution, the camera 4 can be attached to the tripod or can be used via a stand.
MIYAMOTO NORIAKI
ISOHATA TOSHIHIRO
