Patent ID: 7494293
Filing Date: 2009-02-24
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital single-lens reflex camera, comprising: a first lens unit having a first photographing lens, a first lens data memory for storing lens data that indicates shading characteristics of said first photographing lens and an identification data memory for storing identification data to identify said first photographing lens; and a camera body to which said first lens unit is detachably attached, having an imaging device which receives light transmitted through said first photographing lens to generate an image corresponding to a subject, a second lens data memory for storing lens data that indicates shading characteristics of a second photographing lens of a second lens unit, a lens data reader that reads said lens data that indicates shading characteristics of said first photographing lens from said first lens data memory based on said identification data, and that reads said lens data that indicates shading characteristics of said second photographing lens from said second lens data memory, and an image corrector that corrects an error in said image of said subject caused by shading, based on said lens data read by said lens data reader and imaging device data that indicates shading characteristics of said imaging device, wherein said lens data reader can selectively read a part of said lens data that indicates shading characteristics of said first photographing lens from said first lens data memory, according to a format size of said imaging device.