Image stabilizer

An image stabilizer comprising:

• an image pickup device;
• a holding frame which holds said image pickup device;
• a guide device which guides said holding frame in a manner to allow said holding frame to move linearly in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis;
• a flexible printed wiring board which extends from said image pickup device;
• and
• a flexible printed wiring board support member fixed to said holding frame behind said image pickup device so that said flexible printed wiring board partly lies on a front surface of said flexible printed wiring board support member, said flexible printed wiring board support member being moved with said holding frame in a direction orthogonal to said optical axis,
• wherein said flexible printed wiring board is orientated toward said guide device so that a boundary between a supported portion and a non-supported portion of said flexible printed wiring board which are supported and not supported by said flexible printed wiring board support member, respectively, is positioned close to said guide device.

An image stabilizer comprising:

• an image pickup device;
• a guide device which guides said image pickup device in a manner to allow said image pickup device to move linearly in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis, said guide device and said image pickup device being arranged at different positions in said plane;
• and
• a flexible printed wiring board which extends from said image pickup device,
• wherein said flexible printed wiring board includes an integrally-movable portion which is connected to said image pickup device to move with said image pickup device, and a freely-deformable portion extending from said integrally-movable portion,
• wherein a direction of formation of said boundary between said integrally-movable portion and said freely-deformable portion of said flexible printed wiring board is substantially parallel to a guiding direction of said guide device.