PURPOSE: To make an electrical connection between a photographing information external display part and a light shielding plate switching operation part, simple and easy by disposing the photographing information external display part displaying the number of left films, and a photographing mode, on a camera main body, and providing the light shielding plate switching operation part driving a light shielding plate to change over the photographing made, on the camera main body of a camera with a panoramic photographing function, advancing/retreating the light shielding plate to/from the upper and lower parts of an aperture.

CONSTITUTION: The photographing information external display part 37 displaying the number of left films and the photographing mode, is disposed on the top surface of the camera main body 1 of the camera with the panoramic photographing function, having the light shielding plates 13 and 14 advanced/retreated to/from the upper and lower parts of the aperture 5, and covering the upper and lower parts of the aperture 5, and a switching knob 2 is provided so as to freely slide, on the camera main body 1. The operation of a light shielding plate driving means composed of a switching plate 6, a driving plate 8, control plates 9 and 11, etc., and advancing/retreating the light shielding plates 13 and 14 to/from the aperture 5, is linked with the slide of the switching knob 2. Then, the switching knob 2 is operated to drive the light shielding plates 13 and 14, so that a normal photographing mode is switched to a panoramic photographing mode.