IMAGING APPARATUS

A video camera, building in a hard disk drive and an optical disk drive within the same housing, for dissolving a problem of increasing the temperature of hard disk drive due to heats generated within an inside of the main body thereof, comprises: an image pickup portion, which is configured to make photographing; a display portion 6 , which is configured to display an image photographed; a hard disk drive 1 which is configured to record the image photographed therein; and an optical disk drive 9 , which is configured to drive an optical disk being attached/detached, wherein the display portion 6 , the optical disk drive 1 , the hard disk 9 are disposed in that order, and the hard disk drive 1 is disposed on a cover portion to be opened when taking out the optical disk from the optical disk drive 9.