Patent ID: 7460781

Claim:
A photographing system established by connecting plural photographing apparatuses, that photograph a subject as slaves to a photographing master apparatus by communication, the photographing master apparatus serving as a master of photographing for the subject, wherein: when a photographing instruction for the subject is inputted on the photographing master apparatus, the photographing system transmits photographing instruction data to the plural photographing apparatuses; the plural photographing apparatuses receive the photographing instruction data transmitted from the photographing master apparatus and photograph the subject according to the received photographing instruction data to thereby generate and record slave photographed image data corresponding to a photographed image of the subject; and when the photographing master apparatus and at least one of the photographing apparatuses, or at least two of the photographing apparatuses are requested to be set as the master simultaneously in photographing of the subject, the photographing master apparatus or one of the photographing apparatuses is set as the master preferentially in accordance with a priority for master setting set in advance.