To provide an image pickup device, capable of realizing efficient photographing and realizing power saving and the improvement of a service life as a device or a system by shortening wasteful operating time.

A reception means 131 receives a photographing requirements from the external 200. A detection means 132 detects whether an image pickup operation for the photographing requirements received by the means 131 is entirely completed (whether or not photographing for all the photographing requirements in a photographing requirement list L300 (X) is completed). A control means 130 sets the state of a driving means 120 for an image pickup means 110 to a standby state or an off-state, when the detection means 132 detects that all the photographing is completed.