To improve usability of a photographing apparatus such as an electronic still camera.

The photographing apparatus has a storage means (22) for temporarily storing images obtained by consecutive photographing at a first speed or a second speed slower than the first speed, and a writing means (28) for writing the image read from the storage means into a recording medium (26). The apparatus determines whether or not consecutive photographing at the first speed is changed to consecutive photographing at the second speed according to the residual capacity of the storage means during performing consecutive photographing at the first speed.