Patent ID: 7991284

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: a date and time information setting device configured to set date and time information; a present date and time information obtaining device configured to obtain present date and time information at a time performing a present photographing operation to photograph a present subject image; a last date and time information recording device configured to record last date and time information at a time performing a last photographing operation to photograph a last subject image; a subject image number counting device configured to compare the present and last date and time information to judge whether or not the present date and time information is within a predetermined period from the last date and time information when performing the present photographing operation and to reset and newly count a number of photographed subject images when it is judged that the present date and time information is not within the predetermined period from the last date and time information and to continuously count the number of photographed subject images when it is judged that the present date and time information is within the predetermined period from the last date and time information; and a displaying unit having an exit screen displayed when the imaging apparatus is turned off and configured to display the number of the photographed subject images, which is counted by the subject image number counting device on the exit screen, wherein the predetermined period is at least one of periods within a same day, a same week, a same month and a same year and a period from beginning of use to a present time and if two or more the predetermined periods are set, the subject image number counting device is configured to count each of the number of the photographed subject images for each predetermined period.