Patent ID: 7606477

Claim:
An electronic camera, comprising: an image-capturing unit which includes an image-capturing device capturing a subject figure to generate an image and an image-capturing optical system focusing the subject figure onto said image-capturing device; a blur detecting unit which detects a blur of an optical axis in said image-capturing optical system; a moving unit which moves part or all of said image-capturing unit so as to eliminate the blur, according to a result the detection by said blur detecting unit; a reading unit which reads the image from said image-capturing device; a viewfinder displaying unit which continuously displays the image read by said reading unit; an operating unit which receives a user instruction on a start of photographing; a detecting unit which detects a remaining power of a battery supplying electronic power to said electronic camera; an identifying unit which identifies a kind of a power source supplying electronic power to said electronic camera; and a controlling unit which performs one of electronic blur correction and optical blur correction according to a result of the identification by said identifying unit, the controlling unit always performing the optical blur correction when the power source is an AC adapter and performing one of the optical blur correction and the electronic blur correction when the power source is a battery by switching the optical blur correction and the electronic blur correction either according to a result detected by said detecting unit or depending on an existence of said user instruction in said operating unit, the electronic blur correction being made by controlling said reading unit to continuously change an image-capturing range of said image-capturing device or by continuously changing a range of the image read by said reading unit to be displayed on said viewfinder displaying unit, the optical blur correction being made by controlling said moving unit.