Patent ID: 6940556

Claim:
A single lens reflex type electronic still camera, comprising: a viewfinder device to which a subject image passing through a taking lens is guided by a quick return mirror; a photographic image capturing device provided at a stage to the rear of the quick return mirror, that captures the subject image and outputs color image data; an analytic image capturing device provided at a position that is substantially conjugate with said photographic image capturing device relative to the taking lens, that receives light forming the subject image guided to said viewfinder device from the quick return mirror and outputs color image data for scene analysis; an arithmetic operation circuit that is supplied with the color image data for scene analysis output by said analytic image capturing device, and calculates in advance parameters including coefficients and gains to be utilized for image processing based upon the color image data for scene analysis; and an image processing circuit that performs image processing on the color image data output by said photographic image capturing device using the parameters calculated at said arithmetic operation circuit.