Patent ID: 8532345

Claim:
A camera comprising: An image-capturing unit that captures images of a photographic subject by an image sensor and creates image data of a plurality of shot images based on an instruction for continuous shooting by a user; a display unit that displays on a screen thereof a captured image that is captured by the image sensor; a designation unit that designates, before the instruction for the continuous shooting, at least one of the persons displayed on the screen of the display unit as a designated person based on an instruction by the user; an identification unit that performs a state judgment each time when image data of a one shot image of the plurality of shot images is created, of whether or not both eyes of the designated person appearing in the one shot image are open during the continuous shooting and identifies the image data of the one shot image with the designated person having both eyes open as identified image data when a result of the state judgment is YES; and a recording unit that records the identified image data in a nonvolatile storage medium, wherein when the identification unit identifies the identified image data, the continuous shooting is subsequently stopped.