Imaging apparatus

An imaging apparatus comprising:

• an image sensor configured to capture a subject image via an optical system to generate image data;
• an input interface configured to acquire a zoom amount indicating a degree of a zoom operation by a user operation on an optical system;
• a controller configured to scale a cropped image from the image data to change, from a first focal length, a second focal length, according to the zoom amount dynamically changed by the user operation and acquired by the input interface, the first focal length being formed by the optical system and the second focal length corresponding to an angle of view of the cropped image in the image data;
• and
• a setting interface configured to set a setting range, based on an another user operation input to the setting interface, by setting a corresponding range to scale the cropped image from the image data, the setting range enabling the second focal length to change according to the zoom amount,
• wherein the setting interface is configured to set the corresponding range to scale the cropped image such that a scaling factor in the corresponding range is not greater than a predefined scaling factor that is defined by a first number of pixels for the image sensor to capture the image with respect to a second number of pixels preset to output the image data as an image-shooting result by the imaging apparatus.