CAMERA BASE PLATE

A camera base plate. The camera base plate comprises a plate body (1) and a lever (2), wherein the plate body (1) is provided with a battery avoidance port (11) corresponding to an opening of a battery compartment provided in a camera (200), the battery avoidance port (11) extends in the thickness direction of the plate body (1), and the lever (2) is rotationally connected to the plate body (1) by means of a damping assembly (3) and forms part of a side wall of the battery avoidance port (11). The lever (2) of the camera base plate is rotationally connected to the plate body (1) by means of the damping assembly (3), the lever (2) can form part of the side wall of the battery avoidance port (11), or the lever (2) gradually opens when the lever (2) is rotated, such that the battery avoidance port (11) forms a notch, and a cover at the opening of the camera battery compartment partially extends into the notch after the cover is fully opened, so as to avoid a situation in which a battery cannot be removed or plac