Patent ID: 8149313
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera comprising: a photographic unit that performs photography; a first storage unit that stores, for the purpose of setting a plurality of types of photographic conditions corresponding to a photographic scene, a classification of a photographic condition which can be manually set among the plurality of types of photographic conditions corresponding to the photographic scene, and an index representative of a characteristic of a subject image for a case of being photographed under the plurality of types of photographic conditions in accordance with the classified photographic condition; a photographic scene determination unit that determines a photographic scene, based on a subject image to be photographed by the photographic unit; an automatic setting unit that sets the plurality of types of photographic conditions based on the photographic scene determined by the photographic scene determination unit; a display unit that displays the index corresponding to the classified photographic condition which can be manually set, based on the photographic scene determined by the photographic scene determination unit; a manual setting unit that changes the manually settable classified photographic condition corresponding to the index, among the plurality of types of photographic conditions set by the automatic setting unit, according to a specifying operation of a user in response to the index displayed by the display unit; and a control unit that performs photography by the photographic unit in accordance with the photographic condition changed by the manual setting unit, and the other photographic conditions which are set by the automatic setting unit and which have not been changed by the manual setting unit.