Patent ID: 8089546

Claim:
A camera comprising: a camera main body; a lens unit having an image pickup optical system for focusing a subject image; an image pickup unit configured to pick up the subject image and to convert it into an image pickup signal, the image pickup unit being mounted on the camera main body; a signal processing unit configured to create first image data using the image pickup signal; an optical characteristics memory unit configured to store optical characteristics inherent to the image pickup optical system, the optical characteristics memory unit being mounted on the lens unit; an image memory unit configured to store the first image data and the optical characteristics of the lens unit that is used when the image pickup signal is obtained, the first image data and the optical characteristics stored being associated with each other; an image processing unit configured to create second image data by subjecting the first image data to image processing based on the optical characteristics which are associated with the first image data; a display unit mounted on the camera main body; a display image signal processing unit configured to create second display data by subjecting the second image data to image processing, and to cause the display unit to display the second image data; and a main body controller configured to output the first image data and the optical characteristics that are associated with the first image data simultaneously, from the camera main body to an external device.