Imaging apparatus including a pixel shifting means

Abstract

An image pick-up apparatus includes, an image pickup device having a plurality of pixels disposed with a predetermined distance therebetween to pick up an image on a photographic original with respect to a plurality of colors; an image forming device having an optical axis, to form the image of the photographic original onto the image pickup device; a pixel shifting device to shift a focal point of the image on the image pickup device by a distance shorter than a distance between the pixels of the image pickup device; a plurality of color filters having a plurality of colors different from each other; and a filter selector to select a color filter from the plurality of color filters and for disposing the color filter between the photographic original and the image pickup device. The image pick-up apparatus further includes a controller to control the image pickup device to pick up the image of the photographic original in a first condition that makes the pixel shifting device operative, and to pick up the image of the photographic original in a second condition that makes the pixel shifting device inoperative, at each time when the controller controls the filter selector to change a color filter to another color filter of the plurality of color filters.