Patent ID: 7675567

Claim:
A camera utilized in a camera system which includes at least one lens apparatus having a different image size than the camera, the camera adapted to have one of the at least one lens apparatuses mounted thereon the camera, the camera comprising: an image capturing element; a memory configured to record images obtained from the image capturing element; a controller configured to change a number of recorded pixels of the images stored in the memory based on information about the image size of the lens apparatus acquired from the lens apparatus mounted on the camera; and a display controlled by the controller, wherein the memory stores a plurality of number of recorded pixels for the image size of the lens apparatus mounted on the camera, wherein a selectable number of recorded pixels are equal to or less than a maximum number of recorded pixels existing within the image size of the lens apparatus among the plurality of number of recorded pixels stored in the memory, and wherein the display displays at least one of the selectable number of recorded pixels that exceeds the number of recorded pixels set at present when the at least one of the selectable of recorded pixels for the image sizes of the lens apparatus mounted on the camera exceeds the number of recorded pixels set at present.