To provide a camera that is suited to shoot both a demagnified image and a
magnified image. The camera includes a housing body 11 containing a CCD
15, and a lens barrel 12. An abutted member 20 having an objective lens
40 therein is engaged with the lens barrel 12 and a rotatable
manually-controlled member 30 is fitted around that lens barrel. The
abutted member 20 moves back and forth in the direction of an optical
axis K in response to the rotation of the manually-controlled member 30.
A user can move the abutted member 20 and the objective lens 40 back and
forth by controlling the manually-controlled member 30. A magnified image
can be photographed with the manually-controlled member 30 at its
advanced position while a demagnified image can be photographed with the
manually-controlled member 30 at its retracted position. The focal point
of the objective lens 40 falls on the center of an end of the abutted
member 20 located at the position for shooting a magnified image. The
magnified image is photographed with the end of the abutted member 20
abutted against the object.