Patent ID: 7907202

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus including a specific operation member for accepting an operation input, the image pickup apparatus comprising: a shooting optical system including an aperture; aperture adjustment means for adjusting a size of the aperture; image pickup means for receiving a light image of a subject through the aperture and generating an image signal; display means for displaying an image on the basis of the image signal; brightness adjustment means for adjusting a display screen brightness of the display means; electronic finder means for causing the display means to display the image relating to the light image of the subject before performance of a main shooting process on the basis of image signals generated in sequence by the image pickup means; optical finder means for guiding the light image of the subject to a finder window; and allocation means for allocating a function of the image pickup apparatus to the specific operation member, wherein one of the electronic finder means and the optical finder means can be selectively used, and the allocation means includes allocation control means for allocating a first function to the specific operation member in the case in which the optical finder means is used and allocating a second function to the specific operation member in the case in which the electronic finder means is used, wherein the first function is a function which is not used in the case in which the electronic finder means is used, and the second function is a function which is not used in the case in which the optical finder means is used, the first function is a function used to adjust, by using the aperture adjustment means, the size of the aperture to a size set in the main shooting process, and the second function is a function used to adjust, by using the brightness adjustment means, the display screen brightness in response to ambient light around the display screen.