Patent ID: 7136099

Claim:
A digital camera, comprising: an image record member for recording images, which are formed within length-direction image pickup effective ranges and breadth-direction image pickup effective ranges set in a solid state image pickup device disposed in a main body of said digital camera, into a record medium in a form of electronic data; an image pickup effective range change member for changing the length-direction image pickup effective ranges and the breadth-direction image pickup effective ranges in said solid state image pickup device; and an image pickup effective range setting table having a register of a plurality of records respectively indicating correspondences between the length-direction image pickup effective ranges and the breadth-direction image pickup effective ranges, wherein said image pickup effective range change member includes a length-direction range change button capable of executing an input operation to increase the length-direction image pickup effective ranges, and a breadth-direction range change button capable of executing an input operation to increase the breadth-direction image pickup effective ranges; and when said length-direction range change button or said breadth-direction range change button is operated, said image pickup effective range change member changes the length-direction image pickup effective ranges and breadth-direction image pickup effective ranges using the image pickup effective range setting table.