Patent ID: 8482632

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging device that acquires a captured image on a subject; a display device; a first storage device that temporarily records images; a graphical interface operable by a user for setting one of a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in the first storage device and a direct recording mode in which the captured image is directly recorded in a second storage device without being temporarily recorded in the first storage device; display control means for displaying on the display device the captured image temporarily recorded in the first storage device in response to a display instruction of the user; selection means operable by the user for selecting a selected image from the images temporarily recorded in the first storage device and displayed on the display device; recording control means for recording the selected image in the second storage device and deleting the selected image from the first storage device; and deletion means for deleting all of the images remaining in the first storage device after the selecting by the selection means, wherein the deleting of all the images remaining by the deletion means is carried out at once in response to an action instructed by the user.