To provide an electronic camera of a vertical shape which is small in size and possesses good optical characteristics and the electronic camera of the vertical shape which has the center of gravity in the lower part, is high in the stability over the entire part of the camera and is highly user friendly.
This electronic camera has a camera boy 10 which has a light incident section (photographic lens 14a, etc.), for making subject light incident and of which the front surface section has a longitudinally long shape long in a vertical direction when viewed from the front of the camera, a photographic optical system 14 which is arranged near the light incident section, has a counter surface (prism 14b) to bend an optical axis OA in such a manner the optical axis OB after reflection faces the horizontal direction parallel to the base surface of the camera body 10 and is arranged in the form to occupy approximately the entire area in the horizontal direction of the camera body 10 so as to bisect the camera body 10 in a longitudinal direction and a unit group 20 which is bisected in the longitudinal direction, is arranged in the upper region A1 of the camera body 10 and includes at least a stroboscopic capacitor 15, an optical finder 21 and a stroboscopic light emitter 22.
NAKAMAE ATSUSHI
ABE MASARU
