Patent ID: 8830383

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup element configured to photoelectrically convert an object image which passes through an image pickup system including a focus lens; a position detector configured to detect a position of the image pickup element in an optical axis direction; and a controller configured to perform an autofocus processing by moving the focus lens and the image pickup element in the optical axis direction based on an image signal output from the image pickup element, a display of a live-view image generated from the image signal, and an image pickup processing, the image pickup processing including an exposure for recording of the image pickup element so as to capture an image and a generation of a recording image from an image signal acquired by the exposure, wherein the autofocus processing moves the focus lens by a first unit movement amount, and thereafter moves the image pickup element by a second unit movement amount smaller than the first unit movement amount, wherein the controller performs the image pickup processing after the autofocus processing, and wherein the controller moves the image pickup element to a specific position closer to a center of a predetermined movable range of the image pickup element than the position of the image pickup element detected by the position detector, and subsequently performs a correction movement in which the focus lens moves so as to decrease generation of defocus for the image pickup element due to the movement of the image pickup element to the specific position after the exposure for recording in the image pickup processing before the display of the live-view image.