1. A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a defective pixel detection unit for extracting, from a signal output by a frame-reading solid-state image pickup element, pixel data for a target pixel for which a determination is to be made and pixel data for peripheral pixels thereof, and for employing pixel data for a pixel, and determining whether said target pixel is a defective pixel based on said pixel data fro a target pixel and pixel data of a pixel selected from among said peripheral pixels in the same filter as said target pixel,; and a defective pixel correction unit for correcting pixel data for said defective pixel by using said pixel data for said peripheral pixels.