The creative image capturing mode includes creative movie recording and creative still image capturing. In the creative still image capturing, a still image is captured according to an image capturing instruction from the user, and various effects are applied to the captured still image to be recorded. In the present exemplary embodiment, processing in the creative movie recording will be described.
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The creative image capturing mode is set when the creative image capturing mode is selected via the mode selection switch 60. In addition, the creative image capturing mode can be set from a menu setting. FIG. 7A is a diagram illustrating an example of the display unit 28 during recording standby. A standby indicator 703 illustrated in FIG. 7A indicates a display example of an indicator obtainable after the end of recording up to the second movie among four movies. Among four sections consecutively displayed, first and second sections from left are displayed in white and the remaining two sections on the right side are displayed in gray. Through such display of the indicator (change in a display appearance), the user can visually recognize that the half of the entire image file, i.e., recording up to the second chapter has been finished (rate of the number of recorded movies). The standby indicator includes four sections. The respective sections corresponding to the movies of the first to the fourth chapters are arranged in a line in a recording order from left. Standby indicators 703 (1), 703 (2), and 703 (3) indicate display examples of the indicator 703 obtainable during standby before recording the first, the second, and the fourth chapters, respectively.
