To provide an imaging apparatus and an imaging program capable of expanding the acceptable range of a control limit determined by various kinds of setting conditions set to the imaging apparatus, in photographing.

An imaging apparatus 1 is provided with an imaging part 2 for taking an image of a subject via a lens part 21 and generating electronic image data of the subject, and allows selection of at least one of plural special effect processing capable of generating visual effects by combining plural image processing with respect to the image data and is capable of executing the selected special effect processing. The imaging apparatus 1 is provided with a control limit change part 114 which, according to the result of the selection of the special effect processing, changes the acceptable range of the control limit in photographing determined by the various kinds of setting conditions on the imaging apparatus 1 set before the photographing.