Patent ID: 7800679

Claim:
An electronic camera comprising: an image-capturing element; a recording device that records image data constituted of image capturing signals output from the image-capturing element into a data recording medium; a control device that calculates a number of remaining frames of image data that can be recorded into an available area of the data recording medium based on a recording capacity corresponding to the available area of the data recording medium and a number of recording pixels and a recording image quality set at the electronic camera; a display device at which the number of remaining frames is displayed; a power switch of the electronic camera that is provided at a camera body of the electronic camera to be operated by a photographer; and a recording medium detection device that detects the data recording medium has been loaded into the electronic camera, wherein if the recording medium detection device detects that the data recording medium has been loaded when the power switch is in the OFF state, the control device calculates the number of remaining frames of image data that can be recorded into the available area of the data recording medium based on a recording capacity corresponding to the available area of the data recording medium and the number of recording pixels and the recording image quality set at the electronic camera; and the display device displays at least the calculated number of remaining frames of image data that can be recorded into the available area of the data recording medium when the power switch is in the OFF state.