Patent ID: 8922693

Claim:
An imaging apparatus capable of concurrently shooting an image displayed by a display and a determined sub-area designated in the image, the imaging apparatus comprising: a) a lens using including an optical system that collects light from a subject for image formation, and a characteristic information recoding unit that records characteristic information of the optical system in accordance with a shooting condition; and b) a main body including an imaging device that generates image data by photoelectrically converting the light for image formation collected by the optical system, a display that can display an image corresponding to the image data, an input unit, an effective region determination unit that determines an effective region in which the determined sub-area can be set through input of a signal from the input unit, based on characteristic information of the optical system corresponding to a shooting condition, and a display control unit that causes the display to display information indicating the effective region in accordance with a result of determination by the effective region determination unit, wherein the lens unit is capable of communicating with the main body and being removably attached to the main body, wherein the effective region determination unit generates reference information for determining the effective region based on the characteristic information received from the lens unit, and wherein of the characteristic information, information that is capable of being used to generate the reference information varies depending on the number of recording pixels.