A shutter apparatus includes a shutter substrate having a shutter opening,
two shutter blades that are pivotally provided in the shutter substrate
and that have cam openings, and an operation member that is engaged with
the cam openings and that drives to turn the two shutter blades. The two
shutter blades move to form three states of a fully open state, a fully
closed state, and a small aperture state in this order, in accordance
with a movement of the operation member, the two shutter blades are
positioned to interpose the shutter opening therebetween in the fully
open state, a first shutter blade is positioned on the shutter opening
and has an aperture opening in the small aperture state, and moves to the
shutter opening in one direction while the state is shifted to the fully
open state, the fully closed state, and the small aperture state, and a
second shutter blade is reciprocated in the fully closed state that
serves as a turning point.