Patent ID: 8817158

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit; a display unit configured to display a through image picked up by the image pickup unit; a photographic preparation unit configured to adjust a photographic setting of photography by the image pickup unit; a photographic processing unit configured to effect the photography of an image by the image pickup unit on the basis of the photographic setting adjusted by the photographic preparation unit and execute a photographic processing for recording a photographed image onto a recording medium; a detection unit configured to detect a touch operation applied to the display unit; a control unit configured to effect control of the photographic preparation unit and the photographic processing unit such that if the touch applied to the display unit is detected, the photographic preparation unit makes an adjustment to a predetermined photographic setting on the basis of an object at a position of the detected touch in the through image displayed by the display unit, even if a position of the touch is moved after the touch without losing the touch, the adjustment of the predetermined photographic setting according to the moved touch position is not executed, and in a case where the detection unit detects that the display unit loses the touch applied thereto, the photographic processing unit executes the photographic processing.