Patent ID: 8488043

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit for capturing sequential images of a subject according to a predetermined imaging frame rate and for outputting image data; a buffer unit for temporarily holding the image data that is sequentially outputted from the imaging unit; a display unit for displaying the image data; a slow display control unit for executing a slow display process for slow-motion displaying the image data that is outputted from the imaging unit at the imaging frame rate on the display unit at a display frame rate that is lower than the imaging frame rate by supplying the image data to the display unit via the buffer unit, in response to a slow display instruction operation; a recording unit for recording the image data, a buffer control unit for controlling, in response to the slow display instruction operation, the buffer unit to hold image data of a single frame which is inputted to the buffer unit at a time at which the slow display instruction operation is performed, as initial image data for the slow-motion displaying, and to simultaneously hold image data of plural frames which are inputted to the buffer unit subsequently thereafter; and a recording control unit for recording onto the recording unit, in response to a first recording instruction operation that is performed while the slow display control unit is executing the slow display process, still image data corresponding to the image of the subject that is displayed on the display unit at a time at which the first recording instruction operation is performed.