Patent ID: 8767090

Claim:
A photographing apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit configured to capture an image of a subject to create image data; an image pickup unit controller configured to set a photographing time that is longer than an exposure time required for photographing the subject, configured to divide the overall photographing time into a plurality of unit photographing times, and configured to control the image pickup unit to sequentially perform a plurality of unit photographing operations corresponding to the plurality of unit photographing times to create a plurality of unit images; a storage unit configured to store image data of the plurality of unit images created by performing the plurality of unit photographing operations; a user inputting unit configured to receive a user's input operation; an image synthesis unit configured to sum up the image data of different subsets of the plurality of unit images to create a plurality of preparatory images, and configured to sum up the unit images of a selected one of the plurality of preparatory images in response to the user's input operation to create a final image; a display unit configured to display the plurality of preparatory images and to display the final image; and a movement detector configured to detect movement of the subject from the unit images; wherein the image synthesis unit excludes unit images in which the movement detector has detected movement of the subject, wherein the photographing apparatus changes a number of unit images to be included in the preparatory image by changing a starting unit image of the unit images to be included in the preparatory images to exclude the unit images in which the movement detector has detected movement of the subject, and wherein the unit images are created to represent the subject with a fixed angle, and the preparatory images and the final image are created to represent the subject with the same fixed angle of unit images.