Patent ID: 8022998

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: an imaging device that captures an image; a display device that displays the image captured by the imaging device; a shake detecting device that detects shake applied to the imaging apparatus; a compensating device that compensates an image blur caused by the shake; a driving device that drives the compensating device; a mechanical holding device that mechanically holds the compensating device; and a controller that mechanically holds the compensating device by the mechanical holding device while no operation for compensation of the image blur is performed, and that electrically holds the compensating device by the driving device with a state in which the compensating device is drivable by the driving device while the operation for the compensation of the image blur is performed, and that changes control of displaying of the image by the display device when a state in which the compensating device is mechanically held by the mechanical holding device as a mechanically holding state is converted to a state in which the compensating device is electrically held by the driving device as an electrical holding state by leaving displayed an image for a predetermined length of time after a pulse for releasing the mechanically holding state is output.