Patent ID: 8184198

Claim:
An image-taking apparatus comprising: an image pickup device configured to pick up an image of a subject of image taking; an optical viewfinder configured to visually recognizing said subject; an eyepiece sensor to detect when a user uses the optical viewfinder; focusing controlling means configured to control focusing on the basis of an image signal in an auto focus area inside said image pickup device; display controlling means configured to sequentially display time-dependent images of a subject image picked up by said image pickup device onto a display block and display position display indicative of a position of said auto focus area onto said time-dependent images in a superimposed manner; setting means configured to set whether to validate a position specification mode in which the position of said auto focus area to a given position inside an image-taking range based on said image pickup device; alarming means configured to, when a command for switching from a first framing operation based on said display block to a second framing operation based on said optical viewfinder is issued with said position specification mode validated, issue a warning in response to said switching command; an in-viewfinder display device for displaying shooting information through the optical viewfinder by attaching the shooting information to an image formed on a focusing glass; and a superimposed display device, for making an auto focus area that is actually used for focusing recognizable through the optical viewfinder by projecting light onto the image formed on the focusing glass.