Patent ID: 6940542

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging optical system; an image pickup unit which receives an object image passing through said imaging optical system and converts it to image information; a shake detection unit which detects shake detection information of said imaging apparatus; a prediction arithmetic unit which calculates predictive shake information based on the detected shake detection information, and then calculates a predictive shake vector based on the predictive shake information and, determines a position as a start position of a correcting operation of a shake correction unit based on said predicted shake vector and at which said predictive shake vector is canceled out; a said shake correction unit correcting image blurring on said image pickup unit based on the shake detection information detected by said shake detection unit from the correcting-operation start position; and a control unit which controls driving of said shake correction unit at the correcting-operation start position and corrects the image blurring, wherein a range of shake to be detected during an exposure time is predicted before exposure and said shake correction unit is moved to the correcting-operation start position, and subsequently the correcting operation and an exposure operation are performed.