OPTICAL APPARATUS

Provided is an optical apparatus including: a mounting section on which an object is mounted; an observation section including an imaging optical system that forms an image of the object mounted on the mounting section; a shaft section rotatable in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction; a drive section that moves one of the observation section and the mounting section in a third direction that defies a gravity according to a rotation of the shaft section in the first direction and in a fourth direction opposite to the third direction according to a rotation of the shaft section in the second direction; and a torque control section including a clutch section that permits the rotation of the shaft section in the first direction, inhibits the rotation of the shaft section in the second direction, and rotates in the second direction with the shaft section as a rotation force in the second direction is input to the shaft section, and a restriction section that restricts the rotation of the clutch section.