Photographing apparatus and optical system having an optical image stabilizer for driving an optical group along a sphere centered on an aplanatic point

#This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 (a) from of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2007-0126157, filed on Dec. 6, 2007, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.

#1. Field of the Invention

#The present general inventive concept relates to a photographing apparatus, and more particularly, to a photographing apparatus and an optical system, to optically correct a hand tremor and thereby prevent image quality degradation due to hand tremor by a user.

#These and/or other aspects and utilities of the present general inventive concept will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a photographing apparatus according to an example embodiment of the present general inventive concept;

#FIG. 2 illustrates a lens unit according to an example embodiment of the present general inventive concept;

#Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present general inventive concept, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout. The embodiments are described below in order to explain the present general inventive concept by referring to the figures.

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a photographing apparatus according to an example embodiment of the present general inventive concept.

#Referring to FIG. 1, the photographing apparatus includes a lens unit 100, a photographing unit 110, an image processing unit 120, a display 130, a Codec 140, a storage unit 150, a driving unit 160, a control unit 170, and a tremor detecting unit 180.