An imaging apparatus includes a plurality of color filters arranged in a specific arrangement; a plurality of pixels adjacently arranged in each color filter; an exposure setting section for assigning one of a plurality of exposures to each pixel so as to perform exposure using the plurality of exposures; a readout section for reading out an image signal corresponding to each of the plurality of the exposures from the plurality of the pixels of each color filter; and a synthesizing section for determining an image signal of each color filter, based on the image signals read out by the readout section, and synthesizing the determined image signals of all of the plurality of the color filters, so as to output an image signal for forming an image.