Patent ID: 7830447

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a spectroscopy section for splitting a beam of object light asymmetrically; a first image pickup element for converting to image data a first one of the split object lights from the spectroscopy section; a second image pickup element for converting to image data a second one of the split object lights from the spectroscopy section; a moving picture imaging control section for imaging a moving picture of an object by pixel addition driving of only one of the image pickup elements, among the first and second image pickup elements; a first still-image photographing control section for photographing a still image of the object using the first image pickup element and the second image pickup element; a first recording control section for generating single still-image data by synthesizing still-image data acquired by the first image pickup element and still-image data acquired by the second image pickup element according to the first still-image photographing control section and for recording the generated single still-image data to a record section; and a judgment section for judging whether or not a quantity of the object light is large, based on a threshold; wherein the moving picture imaging control section images the moving picture of the object by pixel addition driving of only the image pickup element which converts to image data the split object light with a smaller quantity of light of the split object lights from the spectroscopy section if the judgment section judges that the quantity of the object light is large, and wherein the moving picture imaging control section images the moving picture of the object by pixel addition driving of only the image pickup element which converts to image data the split object light with a larger quantity of light of the split object lights from the spectroscopy section if the judgment section judges that the quantity of the object light is not large.