Patent ID: 7970268

Claim:
A photographing parameter setting system comprising: a photographing device which photographs an image; and a photographing information providing device which provides photographing information for specifying predetermined photographing parameter values to the photographing device, wherein the photographing information providing device includes: a photographing information storage unit which stores photographing information corresponding to a photographing opportunity defined by a temporal range and a geographic range; and a photographing information transmission unit which transmits the photographing information stored in the photographing information storage unit, and wherein the photographing device includes: a photographing information reception unit which receives the photographing information transmitted from the photographing information transmission unit; and a photographing parameter setting unit which sets the predetermined photographing parameter values used for photographing at the photographing opportunity, on the basis of the received photographing information; and wherein the photographing information transmitted from the photographing information transmission unit is photographing condition specifying information indicating whether a photographing condition at the photographing opportunity corresponds to any one of a plurality of predetermined photographing conditions, and wherein the photographing parameter setting unit includes correspondence information for defining the plurality of photographing conditions and the predetermined photographing parameter values.