Patent ID: 7496289

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus that performs panning control with a predetermined panning control characteristic when the image pickup apparatus is in a panning condition, comprising: a shutter speed-setting device that sets a shutter speed at which the image pickup apparatus operates when shooting; a shake-detecting device that detects a shake of the image pickup apparatus; a correction amount-calculating device that calculates an amount of correction of the shake of the image pickup apparatus; a shake-correcting device that corrects the shake of the image pickup apparatus by driving a shift lens based on the calculated amount of correction of the shake of the image pickup apparatus; a panning-determining device that determines, based on the set shutter speed and the amount of correction of the shake of the image pickup apparatus, whether or not the image pickup apparatus is in the panning condition; and a panning control characteristic-changing device that changes the panning control characteristic based on the set shutter speed and the amount of correction of the shake of the image pickup apparatus, wherein as the set shutter speed becomes slower, said panning-determining device does not determine that the image pickup apparatus is in the panning condition, until the amount of correction of the shake of the image pickup apparatus becomes larger.