Patent ID: 7800686

Claim:
An electronic camera, comprising: a luminance detection device that detects a luminance of a photographic field; an image sensor that captures an image of a photographic subject; a light reduction device that changes over between reducing an amount of light from the photographic subject that is conducted to the image sensor, and not performing such light amount reduction; and a calculation device that, when moving image photography is started with the image sensor, decides whether or not to perform the light amount reduction with the light reduction device according to the luminance detected by the luminance detection device, and then calculates a control exposure for this moving image photography, wherein: the calculation device decides to perform the light amount reduction with the light reduction device, if the luminance detected by the luminance detection device is higher than a predetermined first threshold value; and the light reduction device continues to perform the light amount reduction during the moving image photography, even if the luminance detected by the luminance detection device is lower than the predetermined first threshold value.