A housing of a rotation type camera apparatus has a standing installation surface
for standing installation and a wall-mounting installation surface for wall-mounting
installation. The housing is also provided with a dome type cover composing a shooting
window facing in a slanting direction with respect to a horizontal direction in
a standing-mounting position and in a wall-mounting position. A camera is provided
so as to be able to shoot outside from the shooting window. A camera rotation device
is accommodated in the dome and has a pan rotation axis based on the horizontal
direction. The shooting window faces in an appropriate direction in both the standing-mounting
position and the wall-mounting position. Since the pan rotation axis is set based
on the horizontal direction, a viewer's eyes do not run up and down so much during
the pan rotation.
