Patent ID: 8797425

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus for generating and recording a plurality of image data in different recording formats in one-time image capturing, the apparatus comprising: a mode selection unit configured to select a single-format recording mode in which recording is performed in one of the different recording formats, or a multiple-format recording mode in which recording is simultaneously performed in a plurality of recording formats; a setting unit configured to, if the single-format recording mode is selected by the mode selection unit, set a recording condition related to a recording size and compression ratio of image data recorded in the single-format recording mode; and a controlling unit configured to, if the mode selection unit changes a mode setting from the single-format recording mode to the multiple-format recording mode, automatically set the recording size of image data recorded in the recording formats different from the image data format recorded in the single-format recording mode, according to the setting set by the setting unit, and set the compression ratio of image data recorded in the recording formats different from the image data format recorded in the single-format recording mode, not according to the setting by the setting unit.