Patent ID: 8089552

Claim:
A camera comprising: an instructing unit that instructs initiation of imaging by an imaging device; a display unit that displays a realtime-image taken by the imaging device in response to the initiation of the imaging by the imaging device; a detecting unit that detects a physical quantity correlative with a temperature in the periphery of the imaging device; a warning unit that notifies a warning that displaying of the realtime-image is about to be stopped when the physical quantity satisfies a first predetermined condition, the warning being displayed on the display unit; and a stopping unit that stops displaying of the realtime-image by the display unit after lapse of a predetermined period of time from a time when the physical quantity satisfies the first predetermined condition while the realtime-image is being displayed, wherein the instruction unit instructs displaying of the realtime-image by the display unit in response to full-press operation of a release button, the stopping unit prohibits a start of the displaying of the realtime-image by the display unit upon full-pressing of the release button when the physical quantity detected by the detecting unit satisfies a second predetermined condition after the release button is halfway-pressed when no realtime-image is being displayed, the warning unit notifies a warning that no realtime-image is about to be displayed on the display unit even if the release button is full-pressed, when the physical quantity detected by the detecting unit satisfies the second predetermined condition after the release button is halfway-pressed, and the detecting unit is a temperature sensor that detects a temperature in the periphery of the imaging device, and the first predetermined condition is a condition under which the temperature is equal to or higher than a first threshold, and the second predetermined condition is a condition under which the temperature is equal to or higher than a second threshold, which is a temperature lower than the first threshold.