An image-capturing apparatus, in which solid-state image-capturing
elements having a large number of pixels are used, capable of suitably
performing image-quality correction on a captured image. In a monitor
reading mode, a camera system LSI (6) detects the read image signal which
is read by thinning out pixels by an image-capturing device (3). Based on
the detected data, control values for image-quality correction are
computed in a microcomputer (9), and the camera system LSI (6) performs
an image-quality correction process on the image signal based on these
control values. When the image-capturing device shifts to a capture
reading mode, the camera system LSI (6) temporarily stores the image
signal, in which all the pixels are read, in the image memory (7),
thereafter reads the image signal and detects it. The microcomputer (9)
computes a control value on the basis of this detected data and the
detected data in the previously used monitor reading mode. Thereafter,
the camera system LSI (6) reads the image signal again, and performs an
image-quality correction process on the basis of the control values by
the microcomputer (9).