An image taking apparatus installed with an image blur correction unit for
correcting image blur by combining images, so image taking time in a case
of continuous shooting of the images is prevented from being long and
operations are carried out in a manner in which a photographer does not
feel disorder. Combination of a second frame and a third frame that are
taken with split-exposure is started from a frame that is prior by two
frames in terms of time. Thereby the number of times of split-exposure
operations necessary to obtain three combined images is eight, so the
image taking time is made to be shorter compared to a case of simple
continuous combination of the images. Further, the three combined images
produced in this way include a portion overlapped in terms of time,
however, the combined images are images different from one another that
are continuous in terms of time, so the photographer does not feel
disorder as long as setting is made as to how many frames are shifted for
combination.