A camera which can perform operations by touching a screen of an image display
and can give different instructions according to different pressures applied on
the touching. A digital camera has an LCD for displaying the captured image or
a reproduced image. A touch panel for determining the position of a touched portion
and the pressure applied to the touched portion is provided over the LCD. The camera
gives a variety of instructions with respect to a camera operating system according
to pressure applied to the touched portion on the touch panel. For example, the
touch panel instructs an image-recording preparation in a case that the pressure
is no more than a predetermined pressure, and instructs image-recording in a case
that the pressure is more than the predetermined pressure. In short, adjusting
a focus and an exposure to the principal subject by touching the principal subject
displayed on the LCD, and touching the principal subject harder can record an image
of the principal subject.
