Patent ID: 7098948

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: an image pickup lens; a finder; a strobe; a release switch; a processing section, which converts an optical image of an object inserted through the image pickup lens into digital image data; a first mounting section, which mounts a memory card; a second mounting section, which mounts a disk drive unit provided with a disk recording medium, and a control section configured to control reading of the digital image data from the memory card and have it recorded by the disk recording medium, and to control reading of the digital image data from the disk recording medium and have it recorded by the memory card, wherein, the control section (a) sets a restriction on the digital image data read from the memory card and recorded into the disk recording medium, based on history information concerning copying of the digital image data, which is recorded on the memory card, (b) sets a restriction on such digital image data of digital image data recorded on the memory card that is determined as not having been copied, from the history information, such that the digital image data might not be recorded onto the disk recording media, (c) sets a restriction on the digital image data read from the disk recording medium and recorded into the memory card, based on the history information concerning copying of the digital image data of digital image data recorded on the disk recording media, and (d) sets a restriction on the digital image data of the digital image data recorded on the disk recording media that is determined as not having been copied, from the history information, such that the digital image data might not be recorded onto the memory card.