Patent ID: 8125535

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: a continuous shooting mode setting section which sets a continuous shooting mode of automatically updating a continuous shooting speed during a continuous shooting of still images; an imaging section which photographs a subject image to obtain image data; a calculation section which calculates an exposure value based on the image data obtained by the imaging section during the continuous shooting in the continuous shooting mode set by the continuous shooting mode setting section; a computation section which computes a new exposure time providing an appropriate exposure in accordance with the exposure value calculated by the calculation section whenever the exposure value is calculated by the calculation section; a determination section which determines, in accordance with the exposure time computed by the computation section, a new continuous shooting speed providing a maximum number of photographs per unit time whenever the exposure time is calculated by the computation section; and a driving control section which drives the imaging section so that a photographing operation is continuously carried out in accordance with the new continuous shooting speed determined by the determination section whenever the new continuous shooting speed is determined by the determination section.