Patent ID: 9635280
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: (a) select, based on luminance information of an object, a plurality of shooting conditions, wherein the plurality of shooting conditions contain information on an aperture value and a shutter speed; (b) acquire a time for shooting a plurality of images based on a moving amount of a focus lens dependent on the aperture value, the number of shootings of the plurality of the images, and the shutter speed in each of the plurality of shooting conditions; (c) determine a shooting condition from among the plurality of shooting conditions based on the time for shooting the images of each of the plurality of shooting conditions; and (d) perform control so as to sequentially shoot the plurality of images having in-focus positions different from each other while discretely moving the focus lens by each moving amount depending on the aperture value.