PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus capable of optimally adjusting both of the entire image data recorded in a recording medium and image data in a zooming region when performing electronic zooming process. SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus is provided with an electronic zoom for electronically zooming a prescribed image region in source image data outputted from an imaging element. An electronic zooming image is displayed in a finder operation and the entire images including the images outside the zooming region are fetched in capture. An overall uniform evaluation mode and a zooming region prefered evaluation mode can be selected, the sampling and evaluation methods of data for adjustment are appropriately changed and used inside the zooming region and outside the zooming region, and thus adjustment is performed corresponding to an imaging scene and a photoelastic system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT