An image capturing apparatus, method for recording captured image data, and captured image data processing apparatus and method are provided. An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device, a compressing unit that compresses image data captured with the image capturing device, an obtaining unit that obtains defect-check information adapted to determine whether or not capturing has failed during the capturing by the image capturing device, and a recording unit that records the defect-check information obtained by the obtaining unit onto a recording medium in association with the corresponding image data compressed by the compressing unit.