Patent ID: 8786750

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to capture a through image; a display type setting unit configured to set any one of a plurality of display types as a display type for an information display to be displayed together with the through image captured by the imaging unit; a mode setting unit configured to set a multiple-exposure imaging mode; and a control unit configured to perform a control, when the multiple-exposure imaging mode is set by the mode setting unit and an image to be multiple-composited with the through image can be acquired, so as to change the display type to a display type dedicated to the multiple-exposure imaging mode for displaying at least one of the number of multiple-exposure image capturing scheduled images, the number of multiple-exposure image capturing completed images, the number of images remaining to reach the number of multiple-exposure image capturing scheduled images, and an icon indicating that the multiple-exposure imaging mode is set, wherein the control unit is configured to perform a control, when the multiple-exposure imaging mode is set by the mode setting unit and an image to be multiple-composited with the through image has not been acquired, so as not to change the display type to the display type dedicated to the multiple-exposure imaging mode.