Image pickup apparatus having microphones

An image pickup apparatus comprising:

• a lens barrel having an optical axis;
• a first microphone unit disposed to a left of the optical axis in a left-right direction when viewed from an optical axis direction;
• a second microphone unit disposed to a right of the optical axis in the left-right direction;
• and
• a third microphone unit disposed between the first microphone unit and the second microphone unit in the left-right direction,
• wherein, when viewed from the optical axis direction, both of a lower end position of the first microphone unit and a lower end position of the second microphone unit are lower than an upper end position of the lens barrel and a lower end position of the third microphone unit is higher than the upper end position of the lens barrel, and
• wherein each of the first microphone unit and the second microphone unit acquires mainly an external sound, and
• the third microphone unit acquires mainly a sound inside the apparatus.

An image pickup apparatus comprising:

• a lens barrel having an optical axis;
• a first microphone unit disposed to a left of the optical axis in a left-right direction when viewed from an optical axis direction;
• a second microphone unit disposed to a right of the optical axis in the left-right direction;
• and
• a third microphone unit disposed between the first microphone unit and the second microphone unit in the left-right direction,
• wherein, when viewed from the optical axis direction, both of a lower end position of the first microphone unit and a lower end position of the second microphone unit are lower than an upper end position of the lens barrel and a lower end position of the third microphone unit is higher than the upper end position of the lens barrel, and
• wherein the third microphone unit includes a microphone element and a housing portion holding the microphone element, and
• the lower end position of the third microphone unit is a lower end position of the housing portion, and
• the microphone element is held in the housing portion via an elastic member.