Patent ID: 8194167

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: photographic control means for controlling a photographing behavior in accordance with an input of a direction for taking a photograph; switching means for switching between an active state of the imaging apparatus and a low power state lower in power consumption than the active state; optical finder means for introducing a photographic subject light entered via a photographic optical system into a finder window along a predetermined light path; transmissive display means provided on the predetermined light path and having a display screen capable of switching between a transmission state that transmits the photographic subject light and a low transmission state lower in transmittance than in the transmission state; and display control means for controlling the transmittance of the display screen between the transmission state and the low transmission state; wherein the photographic control means has photography prohibition means for setting in a photography prohibited state in which the photographing behavior is not performed even when the direction for taking the photograph is inputted; and wherein the display control means has means for putting a predetermined region in the display screen into the low transmission state in a case that the photography prohibited state is set in the low power state.