Patent ID: 8723974

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit configured to obtain a set of plural input images with different exposure amounts by photographing a same subject; an image synthesizing unit which creates a synthesized image from the set of plural input images with the different exposure amounts; a live-view image output unit which outputs a live-view image based on the synthesized image created by synthesizing a set of n (where n is an integer not less than 2) input images with different exposure amounts obtained from the image pickup unit in the image synthesizing unit during a live-view display operation; and a recorded image creating unit which creates an image for recording based on the synthesized image synthesized in the image synthesizing unit and created by synthesizing a set of m (where m is an integer not less than 2 and larger than n) input images with different exposure amounts obtained from the image pickup unit during main photographing.