Patent ID: 7787024

Claim:
A photographing apparatus comprising: image pickup means for photographing an object and outputting an image signal; memory control means for allowing said image signal to be stored into image memory means; remaining amount detecting means for detecting a remaining amount of said image memory means; discriminating means for discriminating whether the photographing by said image pickup means can be performed or not on the basis of said detected remaining amount in response that a shutter switch is depressed to the half position in a photographing mode; image selecting means for automatically selecting an image signal from said image memory means on the basis of a predetermined selecting condition when a result of said discrimination indicates that the photographing is impossible; image processing means for effecting processing in the photographing mode to reduce resolution of said selected image signal and supplying said processed image signal to said image memory means; and storing means for storing, after the image pickup means photographs the object and outputs the image signal in response that the shutter switch is depressed to the full position from the half position in the photographing mode, the image signal output from the image pickup means in the image memory means.