Patent ID: 8605162

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: an image capturing unit which captures an image of a photographic subject; and an image capturing control unit which controls said image capturing unit to obtain a still image and to create video data before or after said still image is captured, wherein: said image capturing control unit sets an exposure value of said still image based on a signal level of an image output from said image capturing unit and sets an exposure value of said video data to obtain a same exposure result as the exposure value of said still image; and an image processing unit which creates freeze video data having a plurality of frames, each of the plurality of frames is said still image and creates one video file in which said video data and said freeze video data are connected in a reproduction order, wherein said image capturing control unit creates said video data by reading pixels with a low resolution from said image capturing unit; and said image capturing control unit converts a resolution of said still image obtained through a high resolution reading from said image capturing unit, to create said freeze video data whose number of pixels matches with a number of pixels of said video data.