Abstract:
An imaging device includes measures to prevent it from becoming unusable due to battery discharge or no storage in the storage medium. The device includes a battery charge function and a data transfer function. After detecting the charge amount remaining in the battery and the remaining storage capacity in the storage medium, the order of priority for performing battery charge and data transfer is set. The imaging device is switched between the battery charge function and the data transfer function based on the set priority order. The battery charge is executed in accordance with the detected remaining charge and the data transfer in accordance with the detected remaining storage capacity.
Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit adapted to pickup a moving image, a shooting condition storage unit adapted to store shooting conditions to be used in the image pickup unit, an instruction unit adapted to issue a shooting condition read instruction during moving image shooting by the image pickup unit, a display unit adapted to, when the read instruction has been issued from the instruction unit, display information associated with the shooting conditions stored in the shooting condition storage unit, a selection unit adapted to select a desired shooting condition from information associated with the shooting conditions displayed on the display unit, and a setting unit adapted to set the shooting condition selected by the selection unit.