Patent ID: 8130284

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: object distance detecting means for detecting distance to an object; zoom value detecting means for detecting zoom value of an optical system; object brightness detection means for detecting brightness of the object; white balance controlling means for detecting an achromatic portion of the object based on a chrominance signal generated from an output signal of an imaging element through the optical system, and controlling gain of the chrominance signal in accordance with shift amount of white balance detected from the achromatic portion, wherein: in cases where object distance detection information is fixed, and when object brightness information is a first value, while zoom value information changes, on a border of a first threshold value, adjustment of white balance is made operative or stopped, and when the object brightness information is a second value different from the first value, and when the zoom value information is changed, adjustment of white balance is made operative or stopped on the border of a second threshold value different from the first boundary value.