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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1997
Chisato Yoshida, Saitama, JP;
Sachi Kaho, Tokyo, JP;
Yuu Hirono, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A video still camera with a strobe allows angle or high angle photographing to be carried out without changing an angle of user's hand holding a camera body. A recess portion is formed in a tap surface portion of an outermost housing of a camera body which has a built-in recording/reproducing unit. A photographing unit having a lens unit and a strobe unit which are arranged in a transverse direction with a predetermined separation, is fitted into the recess portion and is rotatable in an up-and-down direction, and is pivoted about openings on opposite sides of the recessed portion. Electrical connections of the lens unit and the strobe unit for connection with the camera body side are introduced through the opening, and connected to the recording/reproducing unit.