Patent ID: 7750952

Claim:
A camera comprising: a designating device, which selects an initialization process in an initialization candidate list including candidates of kinds of formats of the respective areas, in response to user input; an area producing device, which produces a plurality of areas on a recording medium in accordance with the initialization process selected with the designating device; an initialization device, which initializes the areas produced by the area producing device in accordance with the initialization process selected with the designating device; and a detecting device, which detects a recording capacity of the recording medium; and an initialization candidate list generating device, which generates the initialization candidate list to change the candidates in accordance with a result of detection by the detecting device so that the generated initialization candidate list includes a kind of a predetermined format in the candidates if the detecting device detects that the recording capacity of the recording medium is a predetermined value or more and the generated initialization candidate list does not include the kind of the predetermined format in the candidates if the detecting device detects that the recording capacity of the recording medium is smaller than the predetermined value.