Patent ID: 7894707

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: producing means for producing moving image data; writing means, including a memory for storing said moving image data, for writing said moving image data in an external storage device; speed detecting means for detecting a data write speed of said external storage device; and control means for controlling an operation of said writing means, wherein in accordance with the data write speed detected by said speed detecting means, said control means switches a writing mode between (i) a first mode in which said control means suspends reading out said moving image data from said memory until a predetermined amount of said moving image data related to a storage capacity of said memory, and starts reading said moving image data from said memory to write said read moving image data into said external storage device, after storage of said predetermined amount of said moving image data into said memory is completed, and (ii) a second mode in which said control means starts reading said moving image data from said memory without waiting for storage of said predetermined amount of said moving image data into said memory to write said read moving image data into said external storage device, and wherein said speed detecting means writes a predetermined amount of data into said external storage device and detects the data write speed in accordance with a time taken to write the predetermined amount of data.