A power source controller 80 is constituted by a battery detection circuit, a DC-DC converter, a switch circuit which selects a block to be powered, and the like and performs detection of an attached battery, a type of the battery, and a remaining amount of the battery. Furthermore, the power source controller 80 controls the DC-DC converter based on results of the detections and an instruction issued by the system controller 50 and supplies a required voltage to the units including the recording medium 200 for a required period of time. The power source switch 72 accepts an operation of selecting power-On and power-Off.
A power source unit 30 is constituted by a primary battery, such as an alkaline battery or a lithium battery, a secondary battery, such as an NiCd battery, an NiMH battery, or an Li battery, or an AC adapter. A recording medium I/F 18 is an interface relative to the recording medium 200, such as a memory card or a hard disk. The recording medium 200 is a memory card, for example, used to record captured images, and is constituted by a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, or the like.