Patent ID: 8587687

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section to pick up a subject; an automatic photographing condition setting section to arbitrarily set at least one among a plurality of kinds of selectable automatic photographing conditions which are settable by being selected, so as to set an automatic photographing condition; an automatic photographing condition judging section to judge whether the automatic photographing condition set by the automatic photographing condition setting section is satisfied or not; an image pickup time state screen setting section to set an image pickup time state screen in accordance with a number of the automatic photographing conditions set by the automatic photographing condition setting section; an image pickup state display control section to perform control to sequentially display, on the image pickup time state screen, a ratio indicating a judgment result by the automatic photographing condition judging section with respect to a judgment standard for judging that the automatic photographing condition is satisfied; and an automatic image pickup instruction control section to instruct the image pickup section to pickup the subject or to instruct that a subject image be recorded, when the automatic photographing condition is judged to be satisfied by the automatic photographing condition judging section; wherein the automatic photographing condition setting section sets at least two among the plurality of kinds of selectable automatic photographing conditions; and wherein the image pickup apparatus further comprises a selectable automatic photographing condition judging section to judge whether the selectable automatic photographing conditions set by the automatic photographing condition setting section are individually satisfied or not.