Patent ID: 7606470

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section which can carry out moving picture photographing; a moving picture compressing section which compresses moving picture data obtained by moving picture photographing processing by the image pickup section using a working memory; a recording control section which records the moving picture data compressed by the moving picture compressing section onto a recording medium; a start indicating section which indicates a start of moving picture recording; a processing control section which starts compression processing by the moving picture compressing section and recording processing by the recording control section when the start of moving picture recording is indicated by the start indicating section; a switching control section which switches a read or write speed of data in the working memory from a low speed to a high speed when the start of moving picture recording is indicated by the start indicating section; a display section which displays a through image; and a display control section which displays on the display section the moving picture data obtained by the moving picture photographing processing by the image pickup section as the through image when the read or write speed of data in the working memory is set to the low speed; wherein the start indicating section indicates the start of moving picture recording while the through image is displayed on the display section by the display control section.