An imaging apparatus comprising: an information acquiring device which acquires photographic information, which is information on a photographic condition of a frame image photographed by the imaging apparatus, and includes at least one of: a face detection result information indicating whether a human face exists in the photographic scene, subject distance information on a subject distance, a focus lens position, a zoom lens position, an in-focus state, and photometric information on brightness of a subject; a reference information registering device which registers reference information, which is generated on the basis of the photographic information, and initialized at a first time of operation of a scene type recognition process; a scene type change determining device that determines whether or not a scene type has changed by comparing the reference information stored in the reference information registering device with the photographic information acquired by the information acquiring device; a scene type recognizing device which recognizes a scene type when it is determined, by the scene type change determining device, that the scene type has changed, said scene type recognizing device comprising: a single scene type recognizing device which executes, and repeats for a predetermined time period or a predetermined number of times, single scene type recognition for recognizing the photographic scene type based on the photographic information acquired by the information acquiring device; a scene type recognition history record registering device which registers, as a scene type recognition history record, a history of single scene type recognition results executed by the single scene type recognizing device; and a total scene type recognizing device which executes total scene type recognition for recognizing the photographic scene type based on the scene type recognition history record registered in the scene type recognition history record registering device, and outputs a result of the total scene type recognition as a scene type recognition result; and a control device which performs at least one of display control, photographic control, signal processing control, and information recording control in response to the scene type recognition result of the scene type recognizing device. an information acquiring device which acquires photographic information, which is information on a photographic condition of a frame image photographed by the imaging apparatus, and includes at least one of: a face detection result information indicating whether a human face exists in the photographic scene, subject distance information on a subject distance, a focus lens position, a zoom lens position, an in-focus state, and photometric information on brightness of a subject; a reference information registering device which registers reference information, which is generated on the basis of the photographic information, and initialized at a first time of operation of a scene type recognition process; a scene type change determining device that determines whether or not a scene type has changed by comparing the reference information stored in the reference information registering device with the photographic information acquired by the information acquiring device; a scene type recognizing device which recognizes a scene type when it is determined, by the scene type change determining device, that the scene type has changed, said scene type recognizing device comprising: a single scene type recognizing device which executes, and repeats for a predetermined time period or a predetermined number of times, single scene type recognition for recognizing the photographic scene type based on the photographic information acquired by the information acquiring device; a scene type recognition history record registering device which registers, as a scene type recognition history record, a history of single scene type recognition results executed by the single scene type recognizing device; and a total scene type recognizing device which executes total scene type recognition for recognizing the photographic scene type based on the scene type recognition history record registered in the scene type recognition history record registering device, and outputs a result of the total scene type recognition as a scene type recognition result; a single scene type recognizing device which executes, and repeats for a predetermined time period or a predetermined number of times, single scene type recognition for recognizing the photographic scene type based on the photographic information acquired by the information acquiring device; a scene type recognition history record registering device which registers, as a scene type recognition history record, a history of single scene type recognition results executed by the single scene type recognizing device; and a total scene type recognizing device which executes total scene type recognition for recognizing the photographic scene type based on the scene type recognition history record registered in the scene type recognition history record registering device, and outputs a result of the total scene type recognition as a scene type recognition result; and a control device which performs at least one of display control, photographic control, signal processing control, and information recording control in response to the scene type recognition result of the scene type recognizing device.