Image pickup apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor

A control method for an image pickup apparatus that performs continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions, the control method comprising:

• a control step of controlling the image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous image pickup are performed;
• and
• a composing step of composing the images acquired by one set of the continuous image pickup by the image pickup unit to generate one output image.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a control method for an image pickup apparatus that performs continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions, the control method comprising:

• a control step of controlling the image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous image pickup are performed;
• and
• a composing step of composing the images acquired by one set of the continuous image pickup by the image pickup unit to generate one output image.