Patent ID: 7649553

Claim:
An electronic camera comprising: an image-capturing element that captures a subject image and outputs image data; an image processing circuit that executes image processing on the image data output by the image-capturing element; a recording circuit that records the image data that have not undergone the image processing or the image data having undergone the image processing into a recording medium; an image quality recording mode setting circuit that sets a first image quality recording mode in which the image processing circuit executes the image processing on the image data output by the image-capturing element and then the image data having undergone the image processing is recorded into the recording medium, or a second image quality recording mode in which the image data output by the image-capturing element is recorded into the recording medium without executing the image processing on the image data; a bracket setting circuit that sets bracketing processing to control the image processing circuit and the recording circuit to change a parameter for the image processing in stages and record a plurality of sets of image data obtained through the image processing executed by using a plurality of parameters resulting from the change made in stages; and a control circuit that controls the image quality recording mode setting circuit and the bracket setting circuit to alternatively set the second image quality recording mode and the bracketing processing.