A clipping processing portion is provided with: a main subject detection portion which detects the location of a main subject from an input image; a clip region setting portion which sets the clip region that is a region including the main subject; and a clipping portion which clips an image of the clip region from the input image to produce a clipped image. There is further provided a zoom control portion which controls the optical zoom magnification of the image sensing portion based on the clip region set by a clip region setting portion, and the optical zoom magnification is controlled such that the input image has an appropriate angle of view.