Camera Having a Separate Image Capture Module and a Method of Assembling the Camera

A camera including:

• a body module including a body housing;
• at least one image capture module, said at least one image capture module including:
• a housing;
• at least one image sensor to convert light into electrical signals;
• an optical system associated with the image sensor and arranged to transmit light through the housing to the at least one image sensor;
• and
• a lens mount including a coupling to releasably engage a lens or other optical module to connect the lens or other optical module to the image capture module, wherein each image sensor has an imaging plane, said image sensor being mounted within the image capture module such that the imaging plane lies at a predefined distance from a plane of a mounting face of the lens mount;
• said image capture module being mounted to the body housing, and interoperable with the body module to capture images;
• the body module further including a data processing system to process image data received from an image sensor of the image capture module;
• and
• a user interface subsystem to enable user control of the image capture module.