Patent ID: 7151563

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: an image pickup section configured to capture a subject image; an adjustment value creating section configured to create an adjustment value for adjusting a white balance of the captured image; and an adjusting section configured to adjust the white balance of the image based on the adjustment value output from the adjustment value creating section; wherein the adjustment value creating section comprises: a calculating section configured to automatically calculate a first adjustment value, based on image data obtained by capturing the subject image, after the subject image is captured to be recorded on a recording medium; an evaluating section configured to determine a reliability of the first adjustment value and to evaluate the determined reliability; an adjustment value correcting section configured: (i) to notify that correction of the first adjustment value via an operation instruction is enabled, and to create a second adjustment value based on an operation instruction for changing the first adjustment value, when the evaluating section evaluates that the reliability of the automatically calculated first adjustment value is low, and (ii) to immediately compress and record the image data based on the first adjustment value without changing the first adjustment value and without notifying that correction of the first adjustment value is enabled, when the evaluating section evaluates that the reliability of the automatically calculated first adjustment value is high; and an adjustment value outputting section configured to output the second adjustment value to the adjusting section.