Patent ID: 7623778

Claim:
A photographic system comprising a plurality of photographic devices that are configured to set photographic condition information including at least one of AE information, AF information and AWB information and to execute photographing based on the photographic condition information, the plurality of photographic devices including a master photographic device, which is a photographic device that is instructed to prepare for the photographing, wherein the master photographic device comprises: a request section that requests the photographic condition information from another photographic device; a receiving section that receives the photographic condition information sent from the other photographic device in response to the request; a first setting section that computes photographic condition information for use in the entire photographic system according to a predetermined equation using the received photographic condition information and photographic condition information acquired by the master photographic device itself based on the status of an object of the photographing, and sets the computed photographic condition information as its own photographic condition information; a provision section which provides the computed photographic condition information to the other photographic device; a first photograph execution section which executes the photographing based on the set photographic condition information; and a photograph execution instruction section which instructs execution of the photographing to the other photographic device, and each of the other photographic devices comprises a sending section which sends photographic condition information acquired by the other photographic device based on the status of the object of the photographing to the master photographic device when the photographic condition information is requested by the master photographic device.