1. An image acquiring apparatus comprising: a pixel shifting section which changes the relative position between luminous flux incident on an imaging element and the imaging element to a plurality of specific positions; an imaging section which photographs in at least one of a plurality of specific positions including an initial position; an image creating section which creates a high-resolution new image based on at least one item of image data photographed by the imaging section; and a display control section which displays at least one image photographed by the imaging section before the high-resolution new image has been created.