Shooting apparatus and method for controlling shooting apparatus

1. A shooting apparatus, comprising:

a shooting section that outputs images of an object;

a moving image shooting control section that controls the shooting section to repeat shooting under a plurality of different predetermined shooting conditions at a predetermined frame rate in a multi-movie mode;

a moving image generation section that generates a plurality of movies, each including moving images, based on a plurality of images previously shot under the predetermined shooting conditions, respectively;

an image analysis section that analyzes, for each of the previously generated plurality of movies, brightness values of a plurality of colors of each of the plurality of images that form each of the previously generated plurality of movies;

an image extraction section that extracts a first image and a second image from each of the plurality of previously generated movies based on the brightness value analysis by the image analyzing section;

a display section; and

a display control section that performs control to simultaneously multi-display the first image and the second image of each of the previously generated plurality of movies on the display section.

2. The shooting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the brightness values of the plurality of colors are red, green, and blue brightness values.

3. The shooting apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein

the display control section performs control to simultaneously multi-display a live view image under each of the plurality of different predetermined shooting conditions on the display section at the time of shooting.

4. The shooting apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a storage section that stores a moving image selected from the plurality of moving images generated by the moving image generation section.

5. The shooting apparatus according to claim 4 , further comprising:

a manual selection section through which a user selects anyone of the moving images based on the first image and the second image displayed on the display section, wherein

the moving image selected through the manual selection section is stored in the storage section or displayed by the display control section on the display.

6. The shooting apparatus according to claim 4 , further comprising:

an automatic selection section that automatically selects one of the plurality of moving images based on a predetermined condition, wherein

the storage section stores the moving image selected by the automatic selection section.

7. The shooting apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein

the image extraction section extracts the first image and the second image from each of the plurality of moving images according to a brightness change in a certain area or a certain object.

8. The shooting apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein

the image extraction section extracts the first image with a highest maximum brightness value and the second image with a lowest minimum brightness value from each of the plurality of moving images.

9. The shooting apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein

the image analysis section analyzes, in each image, brightness values of the certain area or the certain object designated by a user through a touch panel.

10. The shooting apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein

the automatic selection section automatically selects; from the plurality of moving images, the moving image such that the brightness values of the first image are below a saturated brightness value.

11. A method for controlling a shooting apparatus, comprising:

a shooting step, by a shooting section under control of a moving image shooting control section, of repeating, at a predetermined frame rate, a first shooting substep of outputting images of an object under a first shooting condition, a second shooting substep of outputting images of the object under a second shooting condition, and a third shooting substep of outputting images of the object under a third shooting condition in a multi-movie mode;

a moving image generation step, by a moving image generation section, of generating a first movie based on a plurality of images previously shot in the first shooting substep, generating a second movie based on a plurality of images previously shot in the second shooting substep, and generating a third movie based on a plurality of images previously shot in the third shooting substep;

an image analysis step of analyzing, for each of the previously generated first, second and third movies, brightness values of a plurality of colors of each of the plurality of images that forms the previously generated first, second and third movies;

an image extraction step, by an image extraction section, of extracting a first image and a second image from each of the previously generated first, second and third movies based on a result by the image analyzing section; and

a display control step, by a display control section, of simultaneously multi-displaying the first image and the second image of each of the previously generated first, second and third movies on a display section.

12. The method for controlling a shooting apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the brightness values of the plurality of colors are red, green, and blue brightness values.

13. The method for controlling a shooting apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein in the image extraction step, the first image having a highest maximum brightness value and the second image having a lowest minimum brightness value are extracted from each of the plurality of moving images.

14. The shooting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the image extraction section extracts a first image having a highest maximum brightness and a second image having a lowest maximum brightness from each of the plurality of previously generated movies based on the brightness value analysis by the image analyzing section.

15. The method for controlling a shooting apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein during the image extraction step, the image extraction section extracts a first image having a highest maximum brightness and a second image having a lowest maximum brightness from each of the previously generated first, second and third movies based on the brightness value analysis by the image analyzing section.