Patent ID: 9019414
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital photographing apparatus controlling method comprising: providing graphical menus on a display screen of the digital photographing apparatus for respectively adjusting first group photographing setting values; selecting the graphical menu for one of the first group photographing setting values as a graphical menu for adjusting a reference photographing setting value; setting the graphical menu for adjusting the reference photographing setting value to one of an on state or an off state, the on state being a state in which a user is able to adjust the reference photographing setting value and the off state being a state in which the user is not able to adjust the reference photographing value; setting an operation mode according to which one of the first group photographing setting values a user has selected as the reference photographing setting value and whether the graphical menu for adjusting the reference photographing setting value is in the on state or the off state; adjusting the first group photographing setting values, other than the first group photographing setting value selected as the reference photographing setting value, correspondingly with one another when the graphical menu for adjusting the reference photographing setting value is in the on state; and adjusting the first group photographing setting values, other than the first group photographing setting value selected as the reference photographing setting value, independently from one another when the graphical menu for adjusting the reference photographing setting value is in the off state, wherein: the first group photographing setting values comprise at least one of a brightness correction value, a shutter speed, an aperture value, and an image pickup device's sensitivity, and the operation mode comprises at least one of a manual mode, a priority mode, and a program mode.