Patent ID: 7154544

Claim:
A digital electronic camera, comprising: a shooting lens that collects light from an object; a photoelectric conversion element that receives light from the object that is collected by said shooting lens and converts the collected light into electric signals representative of the object; a memory that stores image data representative of objects; a display that displays images of the object corresponding to the electric signals converted by said photoelectric conversion element and displays images corresponding to the image data read from said memory; a zoom designation device that is operable by a user to specify a change in magnification of the image displayed on said display; an operating device that is operable by the user to specify a move of a central point of the image displayed on said display; and a controller that changes the magnification of the image displayed on said display in response to said zoom designation device, regardless of whether the displayed image is supplied from said photoelectric conversion element or from said memory; wherein said controller, responsive to said operating device, moves the central point of the image displayed on said display when the displayed image is supplied from said memory and does not move the central point of the image displayed on said display when the displayed image is supplied from said photoelectric conversion element.