Stage apparatus and image movement correction apparatus for camera using stage apparatus

An image movement correcting apparatus, comprising:

• a support device for supporting an image pickup device so as to move in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of a photographing optical system and to rotate about an axis parallel with the optical axis;
• a drive device for moving said image pickup device in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis and for rotating said image pickup device about said axis parallel with the optical axis;
• a shake detector for detecting the shake of said photographing optical system about said optical axis;
• a rotation detector for detecting a rotational shake of said photographing optical system about said optical axis;
• and
• a controller for driving said drive device to move said image pickup device, so that no movement of an object image formed on an image pickup surface of said image pickup device by the photographing optical system occurs if said optical axis moves or if rotational shake about said optical axis occurs, in accordance with a detection result of said shake detection device and said rotation detector.