Patent ID: 8922667

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image sensing unit that senses rays of light from a subject that pass through an optical system and outputs an image of the subject; a display unit that continuously displays images obtained in real time from the image sensing unit, as an electronic view finder; an image processing unit that applies color conversion processing, by using a look-up table, to the image, in which color conversion processing a color of the image is converted into another color, wherein at least one of the following conditions is satisfied: (a) the color to be converted is determined based on a partial area of an image obtained from the image sensing unit, the partial area being designated by a user operation, and (b) the another color is determined based on a partial area of an image obtained from the image sensing unit, the partial area being designated by a user operation; and a control unit that controls the display unit to alternately display a processed image to which the color conversion processing is applied by the image processing unit, and a non-processed image to which the color conversion processing is not applied by the image processing unit, so as to enable the user to compare the processed image with the non-processed image.