Patent ID: 8525892

Claim:
An imaging apparatus that enables still image shooting in a movie recording mode, the imaging apparatus comprising: an AF area setting controller configured to set a first AF area in a still image shooting mode, to set a second AF area in the case where still image shooting in the movie recording mode, and to set a third AF area in the movie recording mode, each of the second and third AF areas being larger than the first AF area; and a focusing controller configured to control a focus state of an image based on a signal corresponding to an AF area in an image set by said AF area setting controller, wherein the second AF area is a part of an entire frame of the image and a size of the second AF area is equal to a size of the third AF area, and wherein the AF area controller sets the first AF area at an arbitrary position in the image and sets the second AF area at the same position of the third AF area by obtaining the position information of the third AF area from a memory.