Patent ID: 8488022

Claim:
An electronic camera comprising: image pick-up means for continuously imaging an object; a memory medium that stores image data; shooting evaluation means that obtains one evaluation relating to a blur amount of the electronic camera before an operation of a release button for recording the image data, obtains the evaluation for each image data continuously shot by the image pick-up means according to the operation of the release button for recording the image data, and evaluates a good or bad shooting state for each frame by the evaluation; comparison means for comparing the evaluation of said shooting evaluation means concerning the image data within said memory medium with the evaluation of said shooting evaluation means concerning new image data from said image pick-up means; image overwriting means for overwriting and recording an entire frame of the new image data to said memory medium when the evaluation of the new image data is higher than the evaluation of the image data within the memory medium in accordance with a comparison result of said comparison means; and image recording means for recording, on a memory card, the image data that is recorded on the memory medium at a point in time at which the comparing the evaluation for each frame of the image data continuously shot by the image pick-up means has ended.