Patent ID: 7668456

Claim:
A digital camera having a movable mirror arranged so as to be able to advance into and withdraw from the optical path of an optical imaging system in order to conduct a subject image to an optical viewfinder, the digital camera comprising: an imaging element that captures a subject image formed by the optical imaging system and generates image data; a display portion that displays the image based on the generated image data; a control portion having a live view mode, in which control is performed so that the image based on the generated image data is displayed in the display portion in real time as a moving picture, and a viewfinder mode, in which control is performed so that the movable mirror conducts the subject image to the optical viewfinder; an aspect ratio accepting portion that accepts an instruction regarding the aspect ratio of an image; and a recording portion that performs, during the live view mode, predetermined processing on the image data generated by the imaging element so that the image data takes on the aspect ratio accepted by the aspect ratio accepting portion and stores the image data in a storage medium, and performs, during the viewfinder mode, predetermined processing on the image data generated by the imaging element so that the image data takes on the aspect ratio of the optical viewfinder and stores the image data in the storage medium.