Patent ID: 7268808

Claim:
A digital camera that subjects a photographed image signal to an image quality adjustment process on the basis of an image quality adjustment value set to a memory, comprising: a recorder for recording into a recording medium an image file including the photographed image signal which has been subject to the image quality adjustment process and the image quality adjustment value set to said memory upon receipt of a recording instruction, wherein said image quality adjustment value stored on said recording medium is capable of being transferred with said image file to another device; a determiner for determining whether or not the image quality adjustment value included in said image file is changed; and an overwriter for overwriting the image quality adjustment value set to said memory with the image quality adjustment value included in said image file depending upon a determination result of said determiner so as to reflect a new written image quality adjustment value on the image quality adjustment process which is directed to a photographed image signal to be obtained after an over-writing process.