Patent ID: 7092027

Claim:
A lens system, comprising: a lens apparatus including a movable lens and a motor, one of a position and a moving rate of the movable lens being controlled with the motor; a controller connected with the lens apparatus; and a control part mounted in one of the lens apparatus and the controller, wherein the lens system executes a control of the movable lens based on one of a control function provided in the lens apparatus and a control function provided in the controller, wherein the control part obtains contents of a control of the movable lens based on the one of the control functions, and the control part executes the control of the movable lens based on the obtained contents of the control, wherein the control function provided in the lens apparatus includes a view angle correction function which is an operation of moving a zoom lens to prevent a change of a view angle due to moving of a focus lens, wherein the control function provided in the controller includes at least one of a shot function and a limit function, wherein the shot function is an operation of controlling the zoom from a current zoom setting to a preset zoom setting, wherein the limit function is an operation of controlling zoom to restrict the zoom settings to a preset range, wherein the preset range is less than a maximum range of the zoom settings, wherein the control of the movable lens includes a control of a zoom lens, wherein when the zoom lens moves to and stops at a shot position by the control based on the shot function, the control part validates the control based on the view angle correction function, and wherein when the controls to be executed in the control part are overlapped at the same time, the control part selects one of the controls to execute in accordance with a predetermined selection process.