There is provided an image taking apparatus capable of preferably correcting both the camera shake and the subject shake in the still picture photography. The image taking apparatus has a system control section that determines whether a subject is a still subject or a dynamic subject. When the system control section determines that the subject is the still subject, the system control section instructs a timing generation section to cause an imaging section to generate a series of images, so that an image piling up section performs piling up of images in accordance with a computed result with a movement vector computing section. Thus, the camera shake is corrected. When the system control section determines that the subject is the dynamic subject, the system control section instructs the timing generation section to perform a single photography at a predetermined shutter time free from the subject shake.