Patent ID: 7443429

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording image data obtained by photographing an object image on a disk-shaped recording medium, comprising: a manually operable device configured to instruct completion of a photographing operation of photographing the object image; a buffer memory configured to temporarily store the image data obtained by photographing the object image; a disk recording circuit configured to read out the stored image data from said buffer memory and record the read-out image data on the disk-shaped recording medium; a detection circuit configured to detect the amount of the image data stored in said buffer memory in response to the manually operable device instructing completion of the photographing operation, the detected amount of the image data corresponding to the amount of the image data to be recorded on the disk-shaped recording medium; a calculated calculation circuit configured to calculate a prediction time to be taken until recording the image data on the disk-shaped recording medium is completed, on the basis of the image data amount detected by said detection circuit; a display circuit configured to display the prediction time calculated by said calculation circuit; a determining circuit configured to determine whether said disk recording circuit has finished reading out the stored image data from the buffer memory and recording the read-out image data on the disk-shaped recording medium after the instructing of completion of the photographing operation by the manually operable device; a control circuit configured to control said detection circuit and said calculation circuit so as to repeat their operations after waiting a predetermined period of time if said determining circuit determines that said disk recording circuit has not completed reading out the stored image data from the buffer memory and recording the read-out image data on the disk-shaped recording medium after the instructing of completion of the photographing operation by the manually operable device; and an electric power circuit configured to turn off in response to the determining circuit determining that said disk recording circuit has finished reading out the stored image data from the buffer memory and recording the read-out image data on the disk-shaped recording medium.