Patent ID: 7948525

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: an imaging element which comprises a plurality of pixels capable of switching between a linear conversion operation for linearly converting incident light into an electric signal and a logarithmic conversion operation for logarithmically converting the incident light into an electric signal, according to a quantity of incident light; a monitor for displaying an image obtained by the imaging element; an operation section which is operable to specify an arbitrary area of the image displayed on the monitor; and an inflection point changing section configured to evaluate whether an output signal of the imaging element in the specified arbitrary area is in a saturation level in relation to the quantity of incident light or whether the output signal is in a logarithmic conversion region, and which changes an incident light intensity value of the inflection point which forms a boundary between a linear region and a logarithmic region in the output signal of the imaging element based on an evaluation result of the output signal.