Patent ID: 8988579
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging device that acquires a live view image before actual imaging, and acquires a recorded image, which is recorded in a recording medium in an actual imaging state; an exposure control unit that controls an exposure time of the live view image, which is acquired by the imaging device, before actual imaging of long exposure imaging such that the exposure time is the same as that in the actual imaging state; an imaging optical system that forms an optical image on a light receiving surface of the imaging device; a finder optical system that guides a subject image to an eye piece of a finder; a display unit that displays a live view image, which is obtained by the imaging device, for the finder; a finder image switching unit that is capable of switching between an optical image, which is guided by the finder optical system, and the live view image, which is displayed by the display unit, so as to use the optical image or the live view image as a finder image viewed from the eye piece; and a finder display control unit that causes the finder image switching unit to alternately switch between the optical image, which is guided by the finder optical system, and a long exposure live view image, which is obtained by the imaging device, so as to use the optical image or the live view image as the finder image viewed from the eye piece, before the actual imaging in the long exposure imaging state.