Patent ID: 7659926

Claim:
An imaging apparatus capable of continuous shooting under a continuous shooting mode comprising: an imaging part for capturing a subject image to generate an image signal; a release switch for indicating start and termination of continuous shooting; an image processing part for creating image data according to the image signal; a first recording part for sequentially recording the image data; a measurement part for measuring data associated with a continuous shooting period from the start to the termination of the continuous shooting determined based on the state of the release switch; a dividing part for dividing the continuous shooting period associated with the image data into approximately equal time intervals; an image selection part for selecting, from among the image data recorded in the first recording part, image data corresponding to shooting time positions of the approximately equally divided time intervals; a display part for displaying the image data selected; and a second recording part for recording only the data associated with the image data selected by the image selection part from among the image data recorded in the first recording part.