An image pickup apparatus having a photographing condition setting section which sets photographing conditions of a subject, a photographing condition determination section which determines whether the image data in the storage section meet the photographing conditions set by the photographing condition setting section, and a photographing control section which deletes from the storage section image data determined by the photographing condition determination section not to meet the photographing conditions, and records into the recording section image data determined by the photographing condition determination section to meet the photographing conditions. In addition, the image data conversion section re-executes conversion of the picked-up image signals into image data and output of the image data.