Patent ID: 8773546

Claim:
A photographing control method for capturing a moment by using a certain key button of a digital photographing apparatus, the photographing control method comprising: detecting a power-on signal of the digital photographing apparatus and an input signal of the certain key button; when the input signal is detected, booting the digital photographing apparatus according to the power-on signal; preparing photographing corresponding to the certain key button while booting the digital photographing apparatus; wherein in the preparing of photographing, the method further comprises setting a photographing mode of the digital photographing apparatus in an automatic mode; the method further comprising: controlling the digital photographing apparatus to capture a photograph of a predetermined subject and store the photograph as an image file in a data storage unit without a further input signal; photographing the predetermined subject in the automatic mode according to the controlling of the digital photographing apparatus; controlling the digital photographing apparatus to convert to a different mode that existed in the photographing apparatus before completion of a prior photographing operation after photographing the predetermined subject in the automatic mode; and controlling the digital photographing apparatus to set to a photographing setting value before completion of a prior photographing operation after converting to the different mode.