Patent ID: 8185677

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus capable of storing captured image data in a plurality of recording media, comprising: a communication unit configured to communicatively connect with an external device; an image capturing unit configured to capture an object and generate image data of the object; a recording and reproducing unit configured to record the image data in the plurality of recording media, and read out the image data from the plurality of recording media; a list generating unit configured to generate a content list which describes storage location information of each image data stored in the plurality of recording media; a sending unit configured to send the content list to the external device which is connected to the image capturing apparatus via said communication unit; and a connection unit configured to detachably connect the plurality of recording media, wherein the plurality of recording media include at least one of internal recording media and at least one of external recording media, wherein said list generating unit checks if the image data stored in the plurality of recording media include identical image data, and if the identical image data are detected, said list generating unit arranges each of storage location information of the identical image data in the content list, and adds a mark indicating that the identical image data are stored in the plurality of recording media in the content list, wherein the mark is added by being corresponded to the storage location information of the identical image data arranged by said list generating unit, and wherein said list generating unit determines a recording medium with the largest number of stored image data from among the plurality of recording media as a base recording medium for describing and arranging each of storage location information of the identical image data in the content list.