Patent ID: 8824853

Claim:
A shooting apparatus comprising: a posture determination unit that determines a posture of a shooting apparatus body; a stop/resumption determination unit that determines stop and resumption of recording of a moving image being shot by an image pickup unit provided in a shooting apparatus body, based on a change of the posture of the shooting apparatus body determined by the posture determination unit; an unnecessary part determination unit that determines an unnecessary part of the moving image based on either (A) a luminance change between frames in a moving image before the stop of the recording determined by the stop/resumption determination unit, or (B) a luminance change between frames in a moving image after the resumption of the recording determined by the stop/resumption determination unit; and a recording control unit that records, as a single video file, a moving image obtained by deleting the part determined as being unnecessary based on either (A) a luminance change between frames in a moving image before the stop of the recording, or (B) a luminance change between frames in a moving image after the resumption of the recording.