Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method

Abstract

An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor such as a CCD, and a timing generator for outputting electronic shutter pulse signals (SUB pulse signals) which are used for changing a potential of an overflow drain (OFD) in the image sensor. The timing generator outputs normal SUB pulses to the image sensor during live view display and outputs inverted SUB pulses obtained by inverting a phase of the normal SUB pulses to the image sensor during a time period from a time when an instruction for photographing is given (S2 state is established) to a time when exposure is started. As a result, charges can be released from the OFD for a relatively long time before exposure for photographing, so that blooming can be satisfactorily suppressed with a simple circuit configuration.

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