Patent ID: 7409151

Claim:
A photographing apparatus comprising: an optical zooming unit for moving a lens so as to change an enlarging ratio of a photographic object; an imaging unit for imaging the photographic object; a magnification acquiring unit for acquiring a magnification set by the optical zooming unit; a gradation setting unit for setting gradation correcting information which is applied during a photographing operation based on the set magnification acquired by the magnification acquiring unit; a correcting unit for correcting gradation of image data outputted from the imaging unit by employing the gradation correcting information set by the gradation setting unit; a first storage unit which stores gradation correcting information as a reference; and a second storage unit which stores changing information which is used to change the gradation correcting information stored in the first storage unit based on the set magnification; wherein the gradation setting unit changes the gradation correcting information stored in the first storage unit based on the changing information stored in the second storage unit, and the gradation setting unit sets the changed gradation correcting information as the gradation correcting information which is applied during the photographing operation.