Patent ID: 8228416

Claim:
A digital camera having a movable mirror provided so as to enter or retract with respect to an optical path of an image pickup optical system for guiding a subject image to an optical viewfinder, comprising: an image pickup element that captures the subject image formed by the image pickup optical system to generate image data; a display portion that displays the image data generated by the image pickup element or image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the image data generated by the image pickup element to predetermined processing; a shaking detecting portion that detects shaking of the digital camera; and, a control portion having a live view mode controlling so that the image data generated by the image pickup element or the image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the image pickup element to predetermined processing is displayed on the display portion as a moving image in real time, wherein the control portion controls so as to shift the digital camera to a live view mode in accordance with detection results of the shaking detecting portion.