Patent ID: 7477293

Claim:
A remote-control system, comprising: a digital camera that performs at least one of a continuous photographing operation and a bulb photographing operation; a setting processor which sets photographing modes for the continuous photographing operation and the bulb photographing operation; a start-command transmitting processor that is provided in a computer, which is independent from said digital camera, said start-command transmitting processor generating a start-command for starting one of said continuous photographing operation and the bulb photographing operation when a switch is depressed; and an end-command generating processor that is provided in said computer, said end-command generating processor generating an end-command for ending the started one of said continuous photographing operation and the bulb photographing operation when said switch is released, wherein, in the mode for the continuous photographing operation, the continuous photographing operation is started when the switch is depressed, and the continuous photographing operation is ended when the switch is released, and wherein, in the mode for the bulb photographing operation, a shutter is opened when the switch is depressed, and the shutter is closed when the switch is released.