Patent ID: 7508424

Claim:
An image management system comprising a digital camera and an image recording apparatus, wherein the digital camera comprises: an imaging unit which images an object to output first image data; a first storage which stores the first image data output from the imaging unit; an instructing unit which issues an instruction to perform a predetermined process for the first image data stored in the first storage; a first processing unit which performs the predetermined process for the first image data stored in the first storage in response to the instruction issued by the instructing unit; and a transmitter which transmits a request to the image recording apparatus to perform the predetermined process for image data corresponding to the first image data in response to the instruction issued by the instruction unit, and wherein the image recoding apparatus comprises: a second storage which stores second image data corresponding to the first image data before a time when the instructing unit issues the instruction; and a second processing unit which performs the predetermined process for the second image data that is included in total image data stored in the second storage and that corresponds to the first image data, when the request transmitted from the transmitter is received.