A camcorder that serves as a professional tool for exhaustively capturing reality in an intuitive manner under all kinds of shooting conditions. This camcorder realizes a new shooting style that has never been achieved before, with respect to the sense of hold when shooting, visibility of the LCD panel and free camera angles. By adjusting the positional relationship between the user and the LCD panel, we pursued an optimal layout for the viewing distance and the eye line height. By making the LCD panel open and close on both the left and right sides of the camcorder body, free shooting styles in various camera angles are realized.