Patent ID: 7362966

Claim:
An optical apparatus, comprising: optical-zooming means for optically zooming an object image in an optical zooming area; image pickup means for picking up the object image; digital-zooming means for electrically zooming, in an electrical zooming area, the object image picked up by the image pickup means; storage means for storing a present zooming state of the optical-zooming means and/or a present zooming state of the digital-zooming means in response to an operation of a first operation portion; determination means for determining whether the stored zooming state is in the optical zooming area and/or in the electrical zooming area based on the stored zooming state; and zooming control means for controlling the driving of the optical-zooming means and/or the digital-zooming means to the stored zooming state based on the result of the determination means in response to a second operation portion.