Image pickup apparatus performing automatic photographing processing, image pickup method and computer-readable recording medium recorded with program thereof

An image pickup apparatus comprising:

• an image pickup section to pick up a subject;
• an automatic photographing condition setting section to select a plurality of automatic photographing conditions among a plurality of kinds of selectable automatic photographing conditions which are settable by being selected, so as to set the automatic photographing conditions;
• an automatic photographing condition judging section to judge whether each of the automatic photographing conditions set by the automatic photographing condition setting section is satisfied by the subject or not;
• an image pickup state sequence display control section to obtain a degree based on a judgment result of each of the set automatic photographing conditions made by the automatic photographing condition judgment section, the degree indicating the judgment result with respect to a judgment standard for judging that the automatic photographing condition is satisfied, and to perform control to sequentially display the obtained degrees;
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• an automatic image pickup instruction control section to instruct the image pickup section to pick up the subject or to instruct that a subject image be recorded, when at least one of the set automatic photographing conditions is judged to be satisfied by the automatic photographing condition judging section.