Patent ID: 8421886

Claim:
A digital camera, comprising: a generating unit that generates image data by capturing an image of a subject; a recording control unit that records the image data obtained by capturing the image of the subject into a first recording media with a first access speed and a second recording media with a second access speed; a decision-making unit that decides which is faster between the first access speed and the second access speed; and an estimation unit that estimates a data size of a first image data and a data size of a second image data to be generated by the generating unit in accordance with a single instruction of image capturing based upon image quality set by an user, wherein: if the decision-making unit decides that the first access speed is faster than the second access speed, the recording control unit records the first image data into the first recording media and the second image data into the second recording media, the first image data and the second image data being generated by the generating unit in accordance with the single instruction of image capturing, and the data size of the second image data being smaller than the data size of the first image data; and if the decision-making unit decides that the first access peed is faster than the second access speed, the recording unit records the first image data, of which the data size is estimated to be larger than the data size of the second image data, into the first recording media, and records the second image data, of which the data size is estimated to be smaller than the data size of the first image data, into the second recording media.