Patent ID: 7852396

Claim:
An image pick-up apparatus having a function of setting an exposure correction value, comprising: a control portion for performing control for generating or acquiring reference images having a plurality of images having a plurality of different exposure correction values applied thereto; and a display portion for displaying the reference images in accordance with the control made by said control portion; wherein said control portion executes processing for receiving as its input selection information selected by a user for the reference images displayed on said display portion, and setting the exposure correction value corresponding to the reference image selected by the user as an exposure correction value to be applied to a photographed image, wherein the display portion is configured for displaying each of the reference images in displayed association with the exposure correction value corresponding to the displayed reference image, and a memory portion for storing image sets having a plurality of images having the plurality of different exposure correction values applied thereto in a form of a plurality set of images corresponding to a plurality of different luminance conditions, wherein said control portion performs control for receiving luminance information in a photographing environment of said image pick-up apparatus as an input, the image set corresponding to the luminance condition close to the luminance information thus received is acquired from said memory portion, and said display portion is instructed to display the image set thus acquired in a form of the reference images.