Image pickup apparatus used as action camera, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor

Abstract

An image pickup apparatus that eliminate manual change of an image pickup direction during picking up an image and can easily obtain an image that records experience while focusing attention on the experience. An image pickup unit picks up a wide-angle image. A face direction detection unit detects a direction of a face of a user. A user movement detection unit detects a movement of the user. A processor executes a set of instructions stored in a memory device to detect a vertical movement and/or a horizontal movement of the face based on an output of the face direction detection unit, determine a position and/or a size of an extraction image extracted from the wide-angle image based on the direction and movements of the face and the movement of the user, and extract the extraction image from the wide angle image with the position and/or the size determined.