To provide an image pickup apparatus for changing attributes of an image file immediately after imaging.

If image data and related data acquired by an image pickup means remain in a temporary storage means immediately after imaging, the image data and the related data stored in the temporary storage data are used to calculate an address when the order for storing the data in the temporary storage means is converted into an order for recording the data as an image file, a corresponding editing position on the image file is calculated and the data at the calculated editing position is changed into the edited data.