1. An electronic camera comprising: an image sensor which photoelectrically converts a subject image obtained by a shooting optical system to generate an image signal; an image processing section which generates face registration image data based on said image signal from said image sensor and generates moving image data based on said image signal; a face detecting section which detects a face area inside a shooting screen based on said moving image data; a controlling section which adjusts shooting parameters of said shooting optical system, depending on a position detected at said face area; one of a face image generating section which cuts out an image of said face area to generate face image data and a face recognizing data generating section which extracts feature points of the face of a captured person from a part of the face area of said face registration image data to generate face recognizing data based on said feature points; and a recording section which records one of said face image data and said face recognizing data, wherein said controlling section estimates an expression of a captured person based on a state of detecting said face area and disables the release operation of said image sensor depending on the type of expression.