An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging optical system (12, 112, 212) that is formed of a wide-angle optical system (13, 113, 213) and a telephoto optical system (14, 114, 214) having a common optical axis; a directional sensor (17, 117) that has a plurality of pixels constituted of photoelectric conversion elements two-dimensionally arranged and that respectively pupil-divides rays incident through the wide-angle and telephoto optical systems (14, 114, 214) so as to selectively receive the rays, wherein optical axis directions of the wide-angle image and the telephoto image, which are captured through the directional sensor (17, 117) and the imaging optical system (12, 112, 212) including the wide-angle optical system (13, 113, 213) and the telephoto optical system (14, 114, 214) having a common optical axis, coincide with each other; a panning/tilting mechanism that rotates an imaging section, which includes the imaging optical system (12, 112, 212) and the directional sensor (17, 117), in horizontal and vertical directions; an image acquisition section that respectively acquires time-series wide-angle images, for which light is received by the directional sensor (17, 117) through the wide-angle optical system (13, 113, 213), and time-series telephoto images for which light is received by the directional sensor (17, 117) through the telephoto optical system (14, 114, 214); a target object detection section that detects a first target object from the wide-angle images by performing image processing on the wide-angle images acquired by the image acquisition section; wherein the target object detection section includes a moving object detection section that performs image recognition of a moving object on the basis of the wide-angle images continuously acquired by the image acquisition section, and that detects the image recognized moving object as the first target object; a panning/tilting control section that controls the panning/tilting mechanism on the basis of information about a position of the first target object, which is detected by the target object detection section, within the wide-angle images such that the first target object is positioned at the center of the wide-angle images; and an image holding section that holds the telephoto image for a predetermined time period to prevent image blurring from occurring on the telephoto image, which is displayed on a display section, if the moving object detection section detects the first target object as a moving object. an imaging optical system (12, 112, 212) that is formed of a wide-angle optical system (13, 113, 213) and a telephoto optical system (14, 114, 214) having a common optical axis; a directional sensor (17, 117) that has a plurality of pixels constituted of photoelectric conversion elements two-dimensionally arranged and that respectively pupil-divides rays incident through the wide-angle and telephoto optical systems (14, 114, 214) so as to selectively receive the rays, wherein optical axis directions of the wide-angle image and the telephoto image, which are captured through the directional sensor (17, 117) and the imaging optical system (12, 112, 212) including the wide-angle optical system (13, 113, 213) and the telephoto optical system (14, 114, 214) having a common optical axis, coincide with each other; a panning/tilting mechanism that rotates an imaging section, which includes the imaging optical system (12, 112, 212) and the directional sensor (17, 117), in horizontal and vertical directions; an image acquisition section that respectively acquires time-series wide-angle images, for which light is received by the directional sensor (17, 117) through the wide-angle optical system (13, 113, 213), and time-series telephoto images for which light is received by the directional sensor (17, 117) through the telephoto optical system (14, 114, 214); a target object detection section that detects a first target object from the wide-angle images by performing image processing on the wide-angle images acquired by the image acquisition section; wherein the target object detection section includes a moving object detection section that performs image recognition of a moving object on the basis of the wide-angle images continuously acquired by the image acquisition section, and that detects the image recognized moving object as the first target object; a panning/tilting control section that controls the panning/tilting mechanism on the basis of information about a position of the first target object, which is detected by the target object detection section, within the wide-angle images such that the first target object is positioned at the center of the wide-angle images; and an image holding section that holds the telephoto image for a predetermined time period to prevent image blurring from occurring on the telephoto image, which is displayed on a display section, if the moving object detection section detects the first target object as a moving object.