Patent ID: 6184925
Filing Date: 2001-02-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A digital camera having a camera body and a photographing lens detachably attached to said camera body,said photographing lens comprising:a memory medium that stores lens-characteristic color correction data characteristic of the photographing lens necessary to make the color of a lens-formed image of an object to be recorded, formed by the photographing lens, coincident with the color of the object as perceived by a naked human eye,and said camera body comprising:an image pickup device for converting the lens-formed image formed by said photographing lens to digital image data;an image pickup color component data memory including pick-up characteristic color component data characteristic of the image pickup device,a recording device for recording the digital image data on a recording medium; anda controller which writes the lens-characteristic color correction data characteristic of the photographing lens read from the memory medium of said photographing lens to said recording medium, together with said digital image data,said memory medium in said lens and said lens-characteristic color correction data therein being physically separate from said image pickup color component data memory in said camera body and said pick-up characteristic color component data therein.