An imaging apparatus capturing and recording a moving image and a static image at the same time includes a converter converting an optical image of a subject into a pixel signal, performing decimation on the pixel signal and outputting the pixel signal that has been subjected to decimation when recording of the moving image is performed but recording of the static image is not performed, and outputting the pixel signal that has not been subjected to decimation when recording of the moving image and the static image is performed; an eliminating section performing decimation on the pixel signal output from the converter only when recording of the moving image and the static image is performed; a moving image data generator generating moving image data; a static image data generator generating static image data; and a recorder recording the moving image data and the static image data.