Camera module, camera, and cable connection method for camera module

A cable connection method for a camera module that connects a cable including a plurality of electric wires to a camera module including an imaging element, the cable connection method comprising:

• an electric wire collectively supplying step of supplying an electric wire positioning and fixing body in which the electric wires whose conductors are exposed at a tip end are collectively fixed;
• a conductive material applying step of applying unsolidified conductive materials to at least one of the conductors and a plurality of pads provided on a back surface of the imaging element;
• a conductor positioning step of positioning the tip ends of the conductors that protrude from the electric wire positioning and fixing body to the pads;
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• a conductive material fixing step of blowing high-temperature air having a temperature higher than a melting point of the conductive materials to the conductive materials to conductively connect the pads and the conductors via the melted conductive materials.