Patent ID: 8654238

Claim:
A digital still camera comprising: A main body having a front surface and a rear surface; an image-capturing device having a photographic lens that captures a subject image, the photographic lens of the image-capturing device being arranged at a first position on the front surface of the main body; a recording device that records the subject image captured by the image-capturing device into an image recording medium; a reproducing device that reproduces the subject image recorded in the image recording medium; a first monitor device that is arranged at a second position on the rear surface of the main body, the first monitor device being arranged such that an optical axis of the photographic lens extends between the first position and the second position; a second monitor device that is independent from the first monitor device, the second monitor device being of a substantially same size and a same type as the first monitor device; and a display control device that displays the subject image captured by the image-capturing device at the first monitor device and displays at the second monitor device a photographic support image, the subject image and the photographic support image being displayed at the same size, wherein: the display control device displays in real time at the first monitor device subject images repeatedly captured by the image-capturing device and displays at the second monitor device as the photographic support image an enlarged image of part of the subject image displayed at the first monitor device, the subject images repeatedly captured and the enlarged image being simultaneously displayed on the first monitor device and the second monitor device, respectively, when a display screen of the first monitor device and a display screen of the second monitor device are aligned next to one another so as to be viewable simultaneously by a photographer such that the photographer is able to make a comparison by simultaneously viewing the images displayed on the first monitor device and the second monitor device, and the first monitor device and the second monitor device are configured such that the images displayed on the first monitor device and the second monitor device are viewable by the photographer at a distance.