A binocular device includes two observation optical systems, an additional optical
system, and a viewfinder for the additional optical system. An image-capturing
unit is movable between a first image-plane position of one of the observation
optical systems and an image-plane position of the additional optical system by
shifting a lens-switching lever. A switch of the image-capturing unit can be turned
on and off by a camera switch lever. For an observation mode using the observation
optical system, the image-capturing unit is set at the image-plane position of
the additional optical system. For an image-capturing mode using the observation
optical system, the image-capturing unit is set at the first image-plane position
such that the switch of the image-capturing unit is turned on. For image-capturing
using the additional optical system, the image-capturing unit is set at the image-plane
position of the additional optical system such that the switch of the image-capturing
unit is turned on.