Patent ID: 7961250

Claim:
A photographing apparatus comprising: an imaging sensor; a controller that performs a photometric operation on a photographing subject and obtains a luminance value of said photographing subject based on said photometric operation; an exposure-mode-selecting device that selects one of a plurality of exposure modes in accordance with a position of said exposure-mode-selecting device, said plurality of exposure mode comprising a sensitivity priority AE mode and an aperture priority AE mode, said exposure-mode-selecting device being arranged on an upper surface of said photographing apparatus; and an operation device arranged on a rear surface of said photographing apparatus, said operation device being operated by a user to set a sensitivity of said imaging sensor in said sensitivity priority AE mode, and to set an aperture value in said aperture priority AE mode, wherein a photographing operation is performed with said sensitivity of said imaging sensor that is set by a user and a shutter speed and an aperture value that are calculated based on said luminance value and said sensitivity, while said photographing apparatus is in said sensitivity priority AE mode.