Patent ID: 7855749

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: an image-capturing element that captures a subject image; a volatile buffer memory in which images captured at the image-capturing element are stored; a stabilized source circuit that generates stabilized power from a battery source and supplies the stabilized power to the image-capturing element, the volatile buffer memory and a nonvolatile recording medium in which the images stored in the volatile buffer memory are recorded; a main switch; a control circuit that controls start/stop of a supply of the stabilized power from the stabilized source circuit in response to an ON/OFF operation of the main switch; a mode setting device that sets one of a first power off mode, in which the supply of the stabilized power is stopped in response to a main switch off operation only after recording unrecorded images present in the volatile buffer memory into the nonvolatile recording medium and a second power off mode in which the supply of the stabilized power is stopped in response to the main switch off operation regardless of whether or not there are unrecorded images present in the buffer memory, wherein: the control circuit (a) controls the stabilized source circuit to stop the supply of the stabilized power, in conformance to the power off mode set by the mode setting device, if the main switch is turned off, and (b) alters a power off mode set by the mode setting device and controls the stabilized source circuit to stop the supply of the stabilized power, in conformance to the altered power off mode, if a switch other than the main switch is operated and the main switch is turned off.