Patent ID: 7903151

Claim:
An electronic camera apparatus comprising: an image pick-up unit for obtaining image data every certain frame period, the image data composing a moving image; a recording unit for performing a data-writing process to successively write the image data obtained by the image pick-up unit onto a detachable recording medium; a rate obtaining unit for obtaining information concerning a data-writing rate at which the recording unit writes the image data onto the recording medium; an adjusting unit for adjusting, based on the data-writing rate obtained by the rate obtaining unit, values of image recording parameters for determining an image data volume to be written onto the recording medium in a fixed period of time to restrict the image data volume to a level less than a data volume which can be written on the recording medium within the fixed period of time; and a priority order designating unit for allowing a user to designate a priority order of plural image recording parameters adjustable by the adjusting unit, wherein the adjusting unit successively determines the values of the plural image recording parameters in the priority order previously designated by the user based on the information concerning data-writing rate obtained by the rate obtaining unit.