Camera

A camera comprising:

• a main body portion;
• a lens camera cone freely sunk and reeled out of said main body portion when manually operating the camera;
• a positioning element for positioning said lens camera cone at a predetermined reel-out position when said lens camera cone is reeled out and positioning said lens camera cone at a predetermined sinking position when said lens camera cone is sunk;
• and
• a plurality of urging elements for urging said lens camera cone toward said reel-out position when said lens camera cone is in said reel-out position, and urging said lens camera cone toward said sinking position when said lens camera cone is in said sinking position.

A camera having a main body portion, and a lens camera cone freely sunk and reeled out in accordance with a manual operation, comprising:

• a positioning element for positioning said lens camera cone at a predetermined reel-out position when said lens camera cone is reeled out and positioning said lens camera cone at a predetermined sinking position when said lens camera cone is sunk;
• and
• an energizing means for energizing said lens camera cone toward said reel-out position at a time when said lens camera cone exists in a portion near said reel-out position, and energizing said lens camera cone toward said sinking position at a time when said lens camera cone exists in a portion near said sinking position,
• wherein said lens camera cone is provided with a finger-engage portion with which a finger of an operator is engaged at a time of manually reeling out said lens camera cone, in a front end portion thereof.

A camera comprising:

• a main body portion;
• a lens camera cone freely sunk and reeled out of said main body portion when manually operating the camera;
• and
• an urging element for urging said lens camera cone toward a reel-out position when said lens camera cone is in said reel-out position, and urging said lens camera cone toward a sinking position when said lens camera cone is in said sinking position,
• wherein said lens camera cone has a finger-engage portion in a front end portion thereof with which a finger of an operator is engaged at a time of manually reeling out said lens camera cone.