Image pickup apparatus with inclination guide display

摘要

An image pickup apparatus is disclosed which provides an appropriate inclination guide display in accordance with an aspect ratio of a picked-up image and the like. The image pickup apparatus includes an inclination detector which detects an inclination of the image pickup apparatus, a display device capable of superimposedly showing an inclination guide display corresponding to a detection output from the inclination detector, on a picked-up image, and an aspect ratio setter which sets the aspect ratio of a picked-up image. The apparatus includes a display controller which controls whether or not to show the inclination guide display on the display device on the basis of the aspect ratio set by the aspect ratio setter.

主权项

1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
a display device which displays a picked-up image; an inclination detector which detects an inclination of the image pickup apparatus; a display processor for showing an inclination guide display corresponding to the inclination of the image pickup apparatus detected by the inclination detector; and a display controller which controls display of the inclination guide display in accordance with a zoom position of the image pickup apparatus, wherein the display controller switches whether or not to show the inclination guide display on the display device based on the inclination of the image pickup apparatus detected by the inclination detector, and wherein the inclination at which the inclination guide display is switched between a display and a non-display is smaller when a zoom position of the image pickup apparatus is on a wide-angle side from a predetermined zoom position than that when the zoom position is on a telephoto side from the predetermined zoom position.