Patent ID: 6940550

Claim:
A digital camera having an imaging device for sensing the image of a subject using a solid-state image sensor and outputting image data representing the image of the subject, and an imaging lens, which is detachable from the digital camera, for forming the image of the subject on a photoreceptive surface of the solid-state image sensor, comprising: a dust position detector operative in a dust detection mode for detecting the position of dust on an image, which is represented by image data output from the imaging device, on the basis of image data output from the imaging device; a storage device for storing the position of dust detected by said dust position detector, in association with magnification of the imaging lens; and a correction unit operative in an image sensing mode for correcting for the image of the dust, at the position stored in said storage device in the positions conforming to the magnification of the imaging lens that has been mounted, in the image of the subject represented by the image data output from the imaging device.