To provide an electronic camera for properly controlling the driving of an eyepiece shutter for interrupting any inverse incident light from an ocular lens as necessary.

This system controller 100 of an electronic camera is constituted so that an eyepiece shutter 16 can be closed not before the exposure of a CCD 14 in a conventional manner but before the reading of imaged data is started after the exposure of a CCD 14 is ended so that any release time lag due to the driving of the eyepiece shutter 16 can be prevented, and that the disappearing time of a subject in a finder can be shortened.