Patent ID: 8063971

Claim:
An image capture apparatus comprising: an image pickup element for photoelectrically converting a subject image formed by a photographing lens; a finder device for effecting display such that a first display region on which the subject image is observed as an optical image and a second display region on which a digital image that is photoelectrically converted by the image pickup element and is displayed is observed, can be observed simultaneously through an eyepiece window; a display controlling unit for controlling, in response to a photographing preparation instruction provided by a photographing instruction unit, to read out, from a recording medium, a digital image recorded thereon at a previous photographing and display the read-out digital image on the second display region, and then controlling to stop continuing to display the read-out digital image any more on the second display region if a predetermined condition is satisfied; and a controlling unit for controlling to perform image processing on the image signal photoelectrically converted by the image pickup element on the basis of a photographing instruction from the photographing instruction unit and controlling the display controlling unit so as to display, on the second display region, a digital image which is subjected to the image processing and to continue to display the digital image which is subjected to the image processing until another image is subjected to the image processing.