Patent ID: 7148928

Claim:
A camera body to which an interchangeable lens in which color compensate information of the interchangeable lens is stored is attachable, the camera body comprising: (a) an image sensor for generating image data of an object, (b) a controller for associating the color compensate information with the image data, (c) a memory for storing the color compensate information for each kind of interchangeable lens, and (d) a determination part for determining whether or not the color compensate information is stored in the interchangeable lens attached to the camera body, wherein the controller associates the color compensate information stored in the interchangeable lens with the image data so as to record the image data together with the color compensate information, and wherein the controller further associates the color compensate information stored in the interchangeable lens with the image data when the color compensate information is stored in the interchangeable lens attached to the camera body, and associates, with the image data, color compensate information stored in the memory and corresponding to the kind of the attached interchangeable lens when the color compensate information is not stored in the interchangeable lens attached to the camera body.