To provide an image pickup apparatus with excellent optical characteristics as well as high reliability and a method of manufacturing the same, capable of efficiently manufacturing the image pickup apparatus in large quantities. The image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes a support board 10, an image pickup device 20 mounted on the support board 10, and a lens component 30 provided on the light receiving region of the image pickup device 20, wherein the lens component 30 has a protrusion part 33 provided around the lens part 31, and the height of the protrusion part 33 from the surface of image pickup device 20 is greater than that of the top 31A of lens part 31 from the surface of the image pickup device 20.