Patent ID: 8379112

Claim:
A waterproof camera comprising: an image pickup section that converts an object image that has passed through a photographing lens to image data; a display section provided on a back side of a camera body, for displaying an image of the image data converted by the image pickup section; a mode setting section that controls a position of the photographing lens or the image pickup section, adjusts a focus balance of at least one of under water and above water and sets a semi-underwater mode in which both an object under water and an object above water are simultaneously photographed; a detection section that detects, when the semi-underwater mode is set, whether or not a low contrast region having low contrast exists; a recording section that records, when the detection section detects that the low contrast region exists, first and second images in which the low contrast region exists respectively: and an image synthesis section that synthesizes the first image and the second image recorded in the recording section, wherein the image synthesis section synthesizes the low contrast region in the first image with an image obtained by removing the low contrast region in the second image from the second image and generates a synthesized image.