Patent ID: 8633998

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: two imaging devices, each comprising an imaging optical system including a zoom lens and an imaging element in which a subject image is formed by the imaging optical system; a lens moving device that moves the zoom lenses along an optical axis direction to differentiate zoom positions of the plurality of imaging devices; a first imaging control device that consecutively acquires image signals indicating a subject from respective imaging elements of the two imaging devices to take two consecutive plane images when the zoom lenses are moved by the lens moving device; a display device that can display plane images; a first display control device that consecutively displays at least one of the two consecutive plane images taken by the first imaging control device on the display device and that displays the two plane images on the display device by at least one of: a first display method for displaying desired one of the two plane images on an entire screen of the display device and displaying the other of the two plane images on the display device in a reduced size; a second display method for displaying the two plane images side by side on the display device; and a third display method for displaying desired one of the two plane images on the entire screen of the display device; a shooting instruction input device that inputs a shooting instruction; a second imaging control device that takes two plane images through the two imaging devices in accordance with the inputted shooting instruction; and a first storage device that stores the two plane images taken by the second imaging control device in a manner associated with information indicating a display method used by the first display control device to display the two plane images just before the shooting instruction is inputted.