Patent ID: 8089523

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section to pick up a subject; a plurality of persons detecting section to detect a plurality of persons in the subject to be picked up by the image pickup section; an automatic photographing condition setting section to arbitrarily set, person by person, respective different conditions individually for each of the plurality of persons detected by the plurality of persons detecting section, among a plurality of kinds of selectable automatic photographing conditions which are settable by being selected, so as to set an automatic photographing condition; an automatic photographing condition judging section to judge whether the automatic photographing condition set by the automatic photographing condition setting section is satisfied or not; and an automatic image pickup instruction control section to instruct the image pickup section to pick up the subject or to instruct that a subject image be recorded, when the automatic photographing condition is judged to be satisfied by the automatic photographing condition judging section.