Patent ID: 7817201

Claim:
A digital camera, comprising: a photographing lens having an aperture mechanism; an imaging section, including an image sensor for capturing a subject image via the photographing lens; a display section capable of displaying image information; a preview instruction member for outputting an instruction to stop down the aperture mechanism from a wide open position to a stopped down aperture position, and to open the aperture mechanism from the stopped down aperture position to the wide open position; an aperture drive section for driving the aperture mechanism to the stopped down aperture position in response to a first operation of the preview instruction member, and restoring the aperture to the wide open position in response to a second operation subsequent to the first operation; and a control section for causing execution of an exposure operation for a specified period in the imaging section, and causing display of a moving image on the display section based on image data acquired by the exposure operation, wherein the control section fixes the moving image display during a stopping down operation of the aperture mechanism by the aperture drive mechanism, and during a restoration operation to the wide open position in response to the instruction, and wherein the control section further resumes the moving image display upon completion of the stopping down operation and resumes the moving image display upon completion of the restoration operation, wherein the first operation and the second operation of the preview instruction member are user pressing of the preview instruction member, and wherein the preview instruction member is a switch other than a shutter release switch.