Patent ID: 7796165

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: a recording unit adapted to record captured image data in at least one of first and second storage media which are inserted; a first transfer unit adapted to transfer the image data recorded in the first storage medium to an external apparatus by wireless communication; a determination unit adapted to determine whether or not an available capacity of the first or second storage medium is less than a predetermined value; a first recording control unit adapted to, in a case where neither the available capacity of the first nor second storage medium is less than the predetermined value as a result of the determination, control said recording unit to record the image data in both the first and second storage media; and a first exchange instruction unit adapted to instruct a user to exchange the second storage medium in a case where the available capacity of at least one of the first and second storage media is less than the predetermined value as a result of the determination, wherein the instruction by said first exchange instruction unit can be executed in parallel with the transfer executed by said first transfer unit.