Patent ID: 7948553

Claim:
A digital camera having a sequential shooting mode, the digital camera comprising: a photographing lens; an imaging section for photoelectrically converting subject light flux that has passed through the photographing lens and outputting subject image signals; an image processing section for processing the subject image signals to generate image data; a memory for storing the image data; a focal point detection section for photoelectrically converting the subject light flux to a photoelectric conversion signal, and for detecting a focal point of the photographing lens based on the photoelectric conversion signal; a focal point adjustment section for carrying out focal point adjustment of the photographing lens based on out of the focal point detection section; and a control section for, in a sequential shooting mode, (1) activating a photoelectrical conversion operation by the focal point detection section for a subsequent exposure operation in parallel with a photoelectrical conversion operation by the imaging section, and (2) activating, in parallel after completion of both the photoelectrical conversion operation by the focal point detection section and the imaging section, an image processing operation by the image processing section and a focal point detecting operation by the focal point detection section.