Patent ID: 7450162

Claim:
A digital camera, comprising: an imaging device for carrying out a plurality of photographing processes in accordance with a photographing condition under an interval photographing mode or an animation photographing mode, the plurality of photographing processes creating a moving image formed from a plurality of still images having adjacent still images and a time interval between adjacent still images; an acceptor for monitoring and selecting, during the time interval between adjacent still images of the moving image created by the plurality of photographing processes which is carried out under the interval photographing mode or the animation photographing mode, any one of a lock state and an unlock state with respect to each of a plurality of parameters which define the photographing condition for each still image of the moving image created by the plurality of photographing processes; an adjuster for adjusting only one or more parameters on which a selection of the unlock state is selected by said acceptor out of the plurality of parameters based on output of said imaging device during the time interval between adjacent still images of the moving image created by the plurality of photographing processes under the interval photographing mode or the animation-photographing mode; and a creator for creating a file of the moving image formed from the plurality of still images created by the plurality of photographing processes which is carried out under the interval photographing mode or the animation photographing mode.