Patent ID: 7305181

Claim:
An imaging device having an imaging sensor for converting a light to be inputted via an imaging optical system to an electrical image signal and being operable to shoot in a consecutive shooting mode in which a plurality of frames of the image are consecutively shot through one operation of a shutter operation section and shot image signals are generated, the imaging device comprising: an operation unit for setting the consecutive mode; a flash generation unit; a flash generation control unit for allowing the flash generation unit to generate flash and prohibiting the flash generating unit from generation flash, in response to an operation of the operation unit; and a recording unit for recording the plurality of the consecutively shot frames of the image, when the consecutive shooting mode is set by the operation unit, in response to the one operation of the shutter operation section, shooting in the state allowing or prohibiting the flash generation unit from generating a flash, on the image to be inputted to the imaging sensor using the flash generation control unit, is consecutively performed.