To provide a digital camera with which focus is automatically adjusted and a photo is automatically taken by simply pressing the shutter button halfway and blurring of images due to hand movement can be avoided.
A digital camera has a first mode in which a user presses the shutter button halfway, confirms that the focus has been automatically adjusted with an automatic focusing function and then presses the shutter button further down until it is fully pressed to take a photo and a second mode in which the focus is automatically adjusted with the automatic focusing function by a user's pressing the shutter button halfway and then, after a certain period of time, a photo is taken automatically. A user can select the first mode or the second mode by turning a changeover switch 21.
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