To correctly inform a user of the number of residual pictures which can be photographed, at the time of switching to and from a normal recording mode with respect to an image pickup device provided with a continuous recording mode for the fixed number of pictures.

Processing advances to a step S203 when a continuous photographing mode is selected in a step S202, and processing advances to a step S205 when a bracket photographing mode is selected in the step S203. processing advances to a step S204 when a recording mode other than the continuous photographing mode is selected. In the step S204, the remaining capacity of a memory card is divided by the data volume per picture of still picture data to be recorded, and an integral portion is taken to calculate a normal residual quantity value. In the step S205, the calculated normal residual quantity value is divided by the preliminarily set fixed number of still pictures for continuous recording to obtain the remainder number of still pictures. The remainder number is subtracted from the normal residual quantity value to calculate a residual quantity value for recording of the fixed number of still pictures. In a step S206, the number of residual pictures which can be recorded is displayed on the basis of the normal residual quantity value or the residual quantity value for recording of the fixed number of pictures.