Patent ID: 8040381

Claim:
A camera system for forming an image of a subject, comprising: an interchangeable lens having a lens image blur corrector configured to detect shake of the camera system and correct blurring of an image caused by this shake, and a lens controller configured to control the correcting operation of the lens image blur corrector, the lens controller holding lens information indicating at least one of specifications of the lens image blur corrector; and a camera body to which the interchangeable lens is removably attachable, the camera body having an imaging unit configured to form an image of the subject, a body image blur corrector configured to detect the shake and correct the blurring of the image, a body controller configured to control the imaging operation of the imaging unit and also control the correcting operation of the body image blur corrector, the body controller being capable of sending and receiving information to and from the lens controller, the body controller holding body information indicating at least one of specifications of the body image blur corrector, the body controller having a select component configured to select either the body image blur corrector or the lens image blur corrector, and a setting component configured to set the selected image blur corrector to a correction enabled state and set the other image blur corrector to a correction disabled state, and a display component configured to display comparison information with which a user can compare the specifications of the body and lens image blur correctors, the camera body or the interchangeable lens further having an image blur correction selector with which either the body or lens image blur corrector can be selected from the outside, and the select component being configured to select either the body or lens image blur corrector on the basis of the selection state of the image blur correction selector.