Patent ID: 8264572

Claim:
An electronic camera comprising: an image capturing device that performs photoelectric conversion on a subject image formed by a photographic optical system and outputs image data; an image display device that displays an image based upon the image data; a thinning device that implements thinning processing on the image data output from the image capturing device; a compressing device that compresses the image data output from the image capturing device, the compressing device configured to output compressed image data; a first storage device achieving a first access speed and storing the compressed image data output from the compressing device and the thinned image data output from the thinning device, image data in the first storage device is configured to be erased when the electronic camera is powered off; a second storage device achieving a second access speed, the second access speed being slower than the first access speed, and configured to store the compressed image data; the first storage device holding the thinned image data even after the compressed image data has been output from the first storage device to the second storage device; and a control device that: when in a photographing mode that captures the subject image, the control device is configured to store, in the second storage device, the image data which was output from the image capturing device and holds the image data in the first storage device, when switching from the photographing mode to an image reproduction mode that displays a reproduced image for display at the image display device and when the electric camera has not been powered off after the thinned image data is stored in the first storage device, the control device is configured to determine whether or not thinned image data corresponding to the reproduced image for display are present in the first storage device, if thinned image data corresponding to the reproduced image for display are present in the first storage device, the control device is configured to display at the image display device the reproduced image for display based upon the thinned image data read from the first storage device, if the thinned image data corresponding to the reproduced image for display are not present in the first storage device, the control device is configured to display at the image display device the reproduced image for display based upon the compressed image data read from the second storage device, and when switching from the photographing mode to the image reproduction mode and when the electric camera has been powered off after the thinned image data is stored in the first storage device, the control device is configured to display at the image display device the reproduced image based upon the compressed image data read from the second storage device without first making a determination as to whether the thinned image data corresponding to the reproduced image for display are present in the first storage device.