Patent ID: 7274400

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: a shooting mode selecting device that enables selection of a shooting mode from a plurality of shooting modes; an imaging device that images a subject in the shooting mode selected by the shooting mode selecting device and outputs image signals; an image displaying device that displays the image according to the image signals outputted from the imaging device; a storing device that stores data of a plurality of composition assist frames, wherein the storing device stores more than one composition assist frame associated with each of the plurality of shooting modes; an extracting device that extracts more than one composition assist frame that can be selected from the plurality of composition assist frames according to the shooting mode selected by the shooting mode selecting device; a composition assist frame selecting device that enables selection of a composition assist frame from the more than one composition assist frames extracted by the extracting device; and a composition assist frame displaying device that displays the composition assist frame selected by the composition assist frame selecting device on the image displaying device displaying the image.