An imaging apparatus carries out imaging at a plurality of focus positions that have been set, and carries out successive image combination for each imaging, generates a focus stacked image after imaging a plurality of times imaging is to be performed that has been set by a focus bracket setting section, and performs image combination of an image that has been taken at the final focus position with a previously taken image or a previously combined image, with position of the finally taken image as a reference for alignment at the time of image combination, and on the other hand performs image combination of taken images other than an image that has been taken at the final focus position with a previously taken image or an image that was previously combined, as the reference for alignment.