Patent ID: 8099468

Claim:
A digital camera, comprising: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject and acquires image data; a communication unit for sending and receiving electronic mail data including image data; a recording control unit that records the image data acquired by the image-capturing unit as photographed image data upon a non-transitory recording medium; an email for sending creation unit that creates an email for sending, for causing the communication unit to send the electronic mail data, to which is attached an image to be sent based upon the photographed image data recorded upon the recording medium; an email address setting unit that sets an email address as the destination of the email for sending that has been created by the email for sending creation unit; and an upper limit setting unit that sets an upper limit of data amount or an upper limit of the number of images, for the image to be sent that is attached to the email for sending, according to the email address that is set by the email address setting unit; wherein the email for sending creation unit creates an email for sending to which an image to be sent is attached, based upon image data that is generated by deleting private information including at least one of photographic date information and camera information from the photographed image data including the private information, according to the email address that is set by the email address setting unit.