Patent ID: 7362367
Filing Date: 2008-04-22
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera that forms, on a solid state imaging device, an object image resulting from object light transmitted via a photographing optical system, to obtain image data representative of the object image, the digital camera comprising: an internal memory; an installed memory, different from the internal memory; a mode switching section that switches the camera to an arbitrary one of a plurality of photographing modes to perform an actual photographing operation, at least one of the plurality of photographing modes including a photographing memory sub-mode in which image data on a desired object is obtained; an image display section that displays an image based on the image data; a distance measuring section that measures a distance to the object; a focusing section that performs focusing in accordance with the distance measured by the distance measuring section; and a controller for controlling operations of the camera, wherein in the photographing memory sub-mode of the at least one of the plurality of photographing modes, the controller: during the actual photographing operation in the at least one of the plurality of photographing modes corresponding to the photographing memory sub-mode, the controller directs performing focusing in accordance with the distance measured when the composition determining operation was performed.