Patent ID: 8643761

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an object; a recording unit configured to record the captured image onto a recording medium; a switching unit configured to switch between a reproduction mode in which recorded image data is read out and displayed on a display device, and a shooting processing mode in which shooting processing is performed by the imaging unit; a selection unit configured to select a first shooting mode or a second shooting mode, the first shooting mode or the second shooting mode being performed in the shooting processing mode; and a reproduction control unit configured to cause the display device to display the image data read out from the recording medium, when the switching unit switched the mode into the reproduction mode, wherein when the switching unit switches the mode to the reproduction mode and in a case where the second shooting mode was selected just before the switching, operations that can be instructed by a user is more limited compared to a case where the first shooting mode was selected just before the switching.