To provide an image pickup device that employs a shake correction means to correct a shake of an object image caused by hand shake or the like so as to attain panorama photographing where plural object images are picked up so as to be joined together by hand-carrying photographing with high accuracy.

The image pickup device controls the shake correction means that corrects the shake of the object image by shifting the object images so as to join 1st and 2nd object images as consecutive images on the basis of the correlation between the 1st object image and the 2nd object image picked up by an image pickup means.