Patent ID: 8174591

Claim:
A photographing method comprising: setting a condition of an image to be formed; dividing data of electric charges stored in all pixels of a photographing device having a color filter for resolving color corresponding to the image focused on the photographing device into M(≧3) fields; transferring at least a part of said divided data in sequence; confirming whether or not transfer of data of m(<M) fields of said M fields is completed, the data of m fields including all types of color signals and pixels necessary to prepare a confirmation image or a thumbnail image for confirming photographing; when it is confirmed that the transfer of the data of m fields is completed, carrying out, an image processing by use of the transferred data of the m fields to make at least one of the confirmation image or the thumbnail image for confirming photographing; confirming whether or not transfer of data of n(m≦n≦M) fields of said M fields is completed, n being a number of fields in which pixels necessary to make the image having the set condition are included; and when it is confirmed that the transfer of the data of n fields is completed, carrying out a second image processing by use of the transferred data of the n fields to make the image to be formed.