An electronic camera having a printer with a portable printing function and
a sheet feed device suitable for use with the printer. The electronic
camera includes an image storage device it photoelectrically convert an
optical image to picture data, a first memory to store picture data, and a
printer unit to print the picture data. The printed picture data may be
fed by a sheet drive mechanism having vibration member and a piezoelectric
element fixed to the vibration member and expanding and contracting
according to an applied voltage, and a driver which applies to the
piezoelectric element a voltage including an alternating component, and at
least one projection formed on the vibration member in a position in the
neighborhood of a peak of the standing wave, and a sheet separation unit
formed on the vibration member, outside the range of the standing wave.
The sheet separation unit has a greater thickness than the thickness of
the vibration member in the range of the standing wave, and includes a
slit formed in the sheet separation unit. The slit has a thickness greater
than the thickness of one sheet of paper being fed and smaller than the
thickness of two sheets.