Patent ID: 8072618

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: an image data file acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of image data files, each having image data regarding an image and additional data regarding at least a photographing condition when the image was taken; a candidate file selection unit that selects, from among the plurality of image data files, image data files which have additional data satisfying one or more predetermined selection conditions as candidate image data files; and a printing unit that performs printing of images represented by at least one of the candidate image data files; wherein the additional data includes photographing time data regarding a photographing time of the image and selection criterion data regarding at least a photographing condition different from the photographing time of the image, and the one or more predetermined selection conditions include a condition that the selection criterion data of a first image data file being evaluated for selection represents a photographing condition that is different from a photographing condition represented by the selection criterion data of a second image data file, the second image data file having a photographing time immediately before a photographing time of the first image data file among the plurality of image data files.