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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1999
Tetsuya Nishio, Kawasaki, JP;
Tatsuo Konno, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides an electronic camera which is excellent in portability and capable of sensing an image in portrait angle by holding a lower portion of the camera as well as of providing users with a drivability and an operational feeling equivalent to those of a silver halide film camera. The electronic camera comprises: image sensing means for photo-electrically transforming a subject image which is sensed through an optical system; a memory cartridge for recording image data which is produced from the image sensing means as an image picture; and a battery for supplying electric powers to built-in electronic components and various circuits, wherein: the battery and the memory cartridge are disposed, respective width directions being aligned in a depth direction of a main body of the camera while respective thickness directions being aligned in a height direction of the main body of the camera. Further, the battery and the memory cartridge are stored in a vertical adjacency to each other near a bottom portion of the main body of the camera.