IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such a problem that it is difficult in highlands to photograph by using an image pickup device which is ready for a hard disk drive. SOLUTION: A video camera 10 includes: an image pickup part which picks up an image of an object; an image-processing part 104 which executes image processing to output by the image pickup part; a sensor part 110 which measures a peripheral pressure; an HDD operation-controlling part which controls the start-up of a hard disk drive 114; an HDD medium-controlling part which controls access to the hard disk drive 114; a recording medium-controlling part which controls access to a second recording medium 113; and a control part 115 which makes control so that the hard disk drive 114 may not start up in case that a pressure measured by the sensor part 110 is lower than a prescribed value, and also makes control so that image data output by the image-processing part 104 may be recorded to the second recording medium 113. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT