To confirm the setting of setting information in a state without the danger of imprudently changing it by generating a mode for displaying the setting information of an electronic image pickup device in the state incapable of changing the setting at a display means for displaying the setting information.

When an information button 31 is pressed at normal time, the various kinds of the setting information of a camera are displayed on a color LCD panel 24. Also, when the information button 31 is pressed again while displaying the setting information, the display of the color LCD panel 24 disappears. Thus, by the pressing operation of the information button 31, the setting information required at the time of photographing is simultaneously confirmed on the color LCD panel 24. At the time, since only the confirmation of the setting information is made possible, the danger of imprudently changing photographing setting is eliminated. Also, the display is made easy to understand by using the color LCD panel 24 of high display ability, and when the information button 31 is pressed at the time of an image reference mode, the various kinds of the information of images and reduced images are simultaneously displayed on the color LCD panel 24.