An electronic camera includes a shutter button. When the shutter button is
half-depressed, a photographing condition such as an exposure time period
and an aperture amount is adjusted by a main CPU, and characters
indicative of the adjusted photographing condition are displayed on an
LCD. When the shutter button is full-depressed, an image signal of an
object is recorded in a recording medium. It is noted that a time
difference between a timing of half-depressing the shutter button and a
timing of full-depressing the shutter button is lower than a threshold
value, a flag is set to "1", and a display of the characters is
prohibited. Prohibiting the characters from being displayed makes it
possible to promptly execute a photographing of the object in response to
the full-depression of the shutter button.