Patent ID: 8204369

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit capturing an image of a subject; a display unit on which the image is displayed; an inclination detector detecting an inclination of the imaging apparatus; an inclination indicator unit allowing the display unit to display an indicator to indicate the inclination on the image captured by the imaging unit based on a result of the detection of the inclination detector, wherein the indicator comprises a plurality of indicator portions arranged with an equal interval in a predetermined criterial direction; when the inclination detected by the inclination detector is within a predetermined range of angles, the inclination indicator unit integrally highlights an indicator portion located at a center, an upper edge line bridging upper ends of all the indicator portions and a lower edge line bridging lower ends of all the indicator portions to indicate that the imaging apparatus is in a horizontal state; and when the inclination detected by the inclination detector is beyond the predetermined range of angles, the inclination indicator unit highlights one of the indicator portions in accordance with a degree of the inclination to indicate that the imaging apparatus is in an inclined state.