Patent ID: 8610784

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section which converts incident light which is incident from a subject via a lens and generates an imaging image; a selection section which, in regard to each of a plurality of ranging areas arranged in the generated imaging image, obtains a subject distance which is a distance from the lens to a subject included in the ranging area and an MTF for each of the ranging areas in relation to the lens, and selects a ranging area which includes a subject to be a focusing target as a focusing target area based on the obtained subject distance and MTF; and a focus control section which performs focus control so as to focus on a subject included in the selected focusing target area, wherein in a case where it is determined whether or not the ranging area which includes the subject where the subject distance is the shortest and the ranging area where the MTF is the highest are the same and the ranging areas are not the same, in a case where the MTF of the ranging area which includes the subject where the subject distance is the shortest is small on the basis of a threshold value, the selection section removes the ranging area from the selection target of the focusing target area and performs the determination with regard to each of the ranging areas which are selection targets of the focusing target area after the removal.