Digital camera with priority information

A digital camera capable of recording in a recording medium an image captured through an image pickup element, the digital camera comprising:

• a priority setting device which sets priority of a captured image, the priority setting device allowing a user to select priority;
• a recording device which records information indicative of the priority set by the priority setting device in association with the captured image when the captured image is recorded;
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• a control device which, if the recording medium has an insufficient recording capacity when a new image is captured, erases an image recorded in the recording medium with priority lower than the new image and records the new image in the recording medium.

A digital camera capable of recording in a recording medium an image captured through an image pickup element, the digital camera comprising:

• a priority setting device which sets priority of a captured image;
• a recording device which records information indicative of the priority set by the priority setting device in association with the captured image when the captured image is recorded;
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• a control device which, if the recording medium has an insufficient recording capacity when a new image is captured, erases an image recorded in the recording medium with priority lower than the new image and records the new image in the recording medium,
• wherein the priority setting device analyzes the captured image to determine whether the captured image is damaged or not and automatically sets lower priority than a normal image to a probably-damaged image.

A digital camera capable of recording in a recording medium an image captured through an image pickup element, the digital camera comprising:

• a device which analyzes a captured image to determine whether the captured image is damaged or not and assigns identification information to a probably-damaged image;
• a recording device which records the identification information in association with the captured image when the captured image is recorded;
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• a control device which, if the recording medium has an insufficient recording capacity when a new image is captured, erases an image recorded in the recording medium with the identification information and records the new image in the recording medium.