Patent ID: 8253850

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an image sensor; a first judging section which judges whether or not image data captured by the image sensor is in a state which satisfies a first condition; a second judging section which judges whether or not the image data captured by the image sensor is in a state which satisfies a second condition that is more generous than the first condition, when the first condition is not satisfied; an automatic shooting control section which successively judges whether or not the imaging apparatus is in a state which satisfies the first condition based on a result of judging by the first judging section, and automatically records the image data captured by the image sensor when it is judged that the imaging apparatus is in the state which satisfies the first condition; and an automatic exposure control section which performs an automatic exposure adjustment in an aperture preferred mode when, in response to successively judging whether or not the imaging apparatus is in a state which satisfies the second condition based on a result of judging by the second judging section, it is judged that the imaging apparatus is in the state which satisfies the second condition, following an automatic exposure adjustment in a mode which is not the aperture preferred mode.