Imaging apparatus and imaging method

Abstract

An imaging apparatus and an imaging method capable of reducing image quality degradation due to camera shake or object shake and photographing images in good image quality in a simple manner. Digital camera 1 is provided with face detection section 120 that detects faces of a plurality of photographing objects, microcomputer 3 performs continuous shooting in optimum photographing conditions in accordance with the number of faces of the photographing objects for each face of the plurality of photographing objects by a single shutter operation and performs control by assigning serial photographing object numbers to the images of the plurality of photographing objects taken by continuous shooting and recording the images in a single continuous-shooting image folder. Furthermore, microcomputer 3 performs continuous shooting in predetermined order in accordance with the number of faces of the photographing objects and detects, when the photographing object speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, the photographing object speed again after photographing other photographing objects.

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