Patent ID: 7424217

Claim:
A method of evaluating image information comprising: (a) a step of converting an optical image of an object to be photographed into electrical image information; (b) a step of evaluating the electrical image information that has not yet been stored in a non-volatile memory, wherein the electrical image information is evaluated in a state in which a shutter operating section, on which a predetermined operation is performed when storing the electrical image information in the non-volatile memory, is not being subjected to the predetermined operation; (c) a step of creating an evaluation-result image information that indicates the evaluation result; and (d) a step of displaying an evaluation-related image based on the evaluation-result image information on an image display section together with a preview image based on the electrical image information that has not yet been stored in the non-volatile memory, wherein the evaluation-result images periodically displayed in a period that is longer than an update period in which the preview image is updated.