Patent ID: 6968118

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for recording, and playing back and displaying a sensed still image and/or moving image on a recording medium, comprising: an image sensing device, a control device, an optical finder, a display device having at least an electronic view finder function, a display setting device adapted to turn on and off said display device, and a review setting device adapted to turn on and off a review function before an image sensing operation of said image sensing device, wherein the display device has a first review function of displaying the sensed image immediately after an image sensing operation wherein said control device controls said display device to display the sensed image for a predetermined time period before start of recording the image on the recording medium, when said first review function had been previously turned on by said review setting device, even if said display device had been turned off by said display setting device, wherein the display device has a second review function wherein said control device controls said display device to display the sensed image after the image has been recorded on the recording medium, wherein the first review function records the image on the recording medium in a format according to an input signal to the display device, wherein the second review function records the image on the recording medium in a format of the image sensing device, and wherein a setting device allows for selection between the first review function and the second review function.