Patent ID: 8830353

Claim:
A camera body to which an interchangeable lens is mountable, the interchangeable lens having a driving object to be driven and an operating member that receives an operation performed by a user to provide an instruction for driving the driving object, the camera body comprising: an imaging unit operable to capture a subject image formed through the interchangeable lens to generate image information; an audio obtaining unit operable to obtain audio information approximately at the same time as when the imaging unit generates the image information; a recording unit operable to record the image information and the audio information in a recording medium; and a camera controller operable to control the audio information to be recorded in the recording medium, wherein the camera controller obtains, from the interchangeable lens, drive information of the driving object corresponding to the operation performed on the operating member, thereafter controls, based on the obtained drive information, the audio information to be recorded in the recording medium, and thereafter notifies the interchangeable lens of information indicating permission to start driving the driving object; the camera controller performs a noise canceling process by controlling, based on the drive information, the audio information recorded in the recording medium to cancel out noise which may be generated when the drive object is driven; and the camera controller starts the noise canceling process to cancel out the noise before notifying the interchangeable lens of the information indicating the permission to start driving the driving object and before the driving object starts to be driven.