Patent ID: 8917316

Claim:
Photographing equipment comprising: an image pickup portion; a display portion which displays an image acquired by the image pickup portion; a determination portion which (1) obtains a distribution of distances from the image pickup portion to objects in the image acquired by the image pickup portion, (2) sets a plurality of detection points within a photographing range of the image pickup portion, and (3) determines, automatically, whether 3D photographing is suitable based on whether or not a position of each of the detection points is substantially linearly arranged on a two-dimensional plane and distances to objects corresponding to the detection points have a correlation with each other; and a display controlling portion which displays a representation indicating that 3D photographing is suitable responsive to a determination, by the determination portion, that 3D photographing is suitable, and which otherwise does not display the representation indicating that 3D photographing is suitable responsive to a determination, by the determination portion, that 3D photographing is not suitable.