Patent ID: 7532813

Claim:
An electronic camera comprising: an image capturing section which is generatable of moving image data based on a subject image obtained via an imaging optical system; a microphone which records speech outside the camera; a lens driving section which includes a motor and a drive mechanism to drive said imaging optical system; and a focus controlling section which controls said lens driving section according to a focusing state of the subject image, and makes different at least one of a continuous driving time of said lens driving section and drive frequency of said motor during microphone's recording and that during microphone's non-recording; wherein during moving image shooting accompanied by recording, said focus controlling section: performs a first focusing operation within a predetermined time either or before and after a start of the shooting, switches, after completing the first focusing operation, to a second focusing operation in which at least one of the continuous driving time of said lens driving section and the drive frequency of said motor is different from that in the first focusing operation, and sets either of the continuous driving time of said lens driving section and the drive frequency of said motor in said second focusing operation according to a resolution and a frame rate of the moving image data.