1. An electronic camera, comprising: an image pickup device that takes a subject image; a face detecting section that not only detects a face area in a shooting image plane based on an output of said image pickup device but also extracts a feature amount of a face of subject from said face area; an inferential section that performs inferential processing relating to either one of age and gender of the subject based on said feature amount; and an image processing section that performs at least one of an exposure correction, a soft focus correction, a skin smoothing correction to adjust color saturation of color of the skin, and a correction to make a person look slim, on a recording-purpose image taken by said image pickup device based on an inference result of said inferential section.