Patent ID: 7042504

Claim:
An electronic photographing device, comprising: a digital camera having a panoramic mode in which a panoramic image can be recorded, wherein the panoramic image includes a number of associated panoramic image frames that together form the panoramic image; a detachable recording medium for recording image information corresponding to each panoramic image frame in a panoramic image; predicted number setting means for allowing a user to preset a number of panoramic image frames for forming a panoramic image; available recording medium determining means for determining a number of panoramic image frames which can be recorded on the detachable recording medium based on an unexposed capacity of the recording medium; comparison means for comparing the number of panoramic image frames which can be recorded as determined by the available recording medium determining means with the number of panoramic image frames preset by the predicted number setting means; and warning means for generating a warning that a spare recording medium is required to complete recording the number of panoramic image frames, if as a result of comparison by the comparison means, the number of panoramic image frames which can be recorded as determined by the available recording medium determining means is smaller than the number of panoramic image frames preset by the predicted number setting means.