Patent ID: 7904621

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: a connection unit adapted to detachably connect a plurality of recording media which includes at least one of internal recording media and at least one of external recording media, the internal recording media and the external recording media having various access speeds; an image capturing unit adapted to capture an object and generate image data of the object; a recording and reproducing unit adapted to record the image data in the plurality of recording media, and read out the image data from the plurality of recording; a list generating unit adapted to generate a content list which describes a list of image data stored in the plurality of recording media, and describes, in the list, storage location information of each image data stored in the plurality of recording media; and a communication unit adapted to communicate with an external device and send the content list to the external device, wherein said list generating unit checks if the image data stored in the plurality of recording media include identical image data, and if the identical image data are detected, said list generating unit generates the content list which is registered as a representative storage location information by which the storage location information of the identical image data are integrated with one piece of storage location information from among the storage location information of the identical image data stored in the plurality of recording media, wherein the representative storage location information indicates a download path to download the identical image data stored in the plurality of recording media at the highest speed.