Patent ID: 7783190

Claim:
An image pick-up apparatus comprising: an image pick-up unit which includes a focus lens and which photographs a subject to generate image data; a first selecting section which is operable by a user to select a photometry system from among a plurality of photometry systems; a second selecting section which is operable by the user to select an auto-focusing system from among a plurality of auto-focusing systems, including a multi-area auto-focusing system; an auto-focusing area setting section which, when the multi-area auto-focusing system is selected by the second selecting section, sets at least one auto-focusing area used by the multi-area auto-focusing system to correlate with the photometry system selected by the first selecting section; and a detecting section which detects a focus position of the focus lens at which the subject is in focus, based on at least one portion of the image data generated by the image pick-up unit that falls within the at least one auto-focusing area set by the auto-focusing area setting section.