An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing device that stores a signal
electrical charge achieved by performing photoelectric conversion on a subject
image projected on a photosensitive surface and reads out the signal electrical
charge to generate an image signal; and a photographing preparation device that
executes photographing preparations for photoelectric conversion performed at the
image-capturing device. And the photographic preparation device executes at least
some of the photographing preparations for photographing a next frame during an
electrical charge read period at the image-capturing device.