The present invention provides an image photographing device which prevents error touch operation of a camera in photographing operation. The image photographing device is provided with the following components: a display part (115) which displays current setting information for a plurality of items (115d-115s); a touch operation part (115A) which detects touch state for the displaying picture of the display part (115). Furthermore, the image photographing device performs the following operations: setting the setting content of the item to a variable state (S15), indicating a variable item for the display part (115) (S17), varying acceptable touch operation according to the setting content (S19), varying displayed cursor displaying positions in response to the detection result of a touch operation part 115A (S27,S43), and varying the setting content of the items displayed by the cursor according to dialing disc operation (S21,S23).