Patent ID: 7394497

Claim:
A camera incorporating therein an aperture member which is variable in an aperture caliber including a completely closed condition and changes over to an aperture caliber after an alteration with a predetermined response speed in accordance with an alteration instruction of the aperture caliber, wherein a subject light incident through an aperture of the aperture member is received by an imaging device to create image data, the camera comprising: a sensor that monitors the aperture caliber of the aperture member; an aperture control section that controls the aperture caliber of the aperture member; a photometry section that measures brightness of field in accordance with light quantity of received light by the imaging device, and an exposure control section that controls an exposure in accordance with the brightness of field measured by the photometry section, wherein the photometry section measures the brightness of field when the aperture member is of a predetermined first aperture caliber which is a relatively large aperture caliber, and measures the brightness of field in halfway through change over of the aperture member from the first aperture caliber to a predetermined second aperture caliber which is relatively smaller than the first aperture caliber when a photometry of the brightness of field is impossible because of an exposure over with the first aperture caliber, wherein the exposure control section controls the exposure in accordance with the brightness of field measured by the photometry section and an aperture caliber in a photometric timing of the brightness of field, of the aperture member, which is monitored by the sensor, when the photometry section measures the brightness of field in halfway through change over of the aperture member from the first aperture caliber to the second aperture caliber, wherein the exposure control section determines in accordance with the brightness of field measured by the photometry section whether there are areas in which luminance on an imaging device cannot be grasped, and wherein if there is no area in which luminance on the imaging device cannot be grasped, the shutter speed associated with an open end aperture caliber is computed.