Patent ID: 8520098

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: a moving image shooting unit configured to shoot a moving image; a compression unit configured to compress a subject image in the moving image obtained from the moving image shooting unit to generate a compressed subject image; a shooting mode changing unit configured to allow a user to change a shooting mode to a super-resolution mode in which images for a super-resolution processing generating a super resolution image using the images, which is a higher resolution image than each image, are shot, or a non-super resolution mode; a compression ratio changing unit configured to change a compression ratio of compression by the compression ratio associated with the shooting mode, wherein the compression ratio in the super-resolution mode is lower than the compression ratio in the non-super-resolution mode; and a recording unit configured to record the compressed subject image in a recording medium, wherein in the super-resolution mode, the shooting mode changing unit changes the shooting mode to the non-super resolution mode automatically based on a predetermined number of images compressed at a low compression ratio being recorded by the recording unit, the predetermined number of images being set by a user so that the shooting mode is changed automatically when the predetermined number of images is reached and the predetermined number being equal to or larger than a number of images necessary to generate the super resolution image by the super resolution processing.