Patent ID: 8004583

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: means for receiving a construction table from an information processing apparatus having means for transmitting the construction table, the construction table including image pickup setting data corresponding to a scene, a cut, or a take; means for selecting a desired scene, a desired cut, or a desired take from the construction table; setting means for setting the image pickup setting data corresponding to the scene, the cut, or the take; variation means for varying the image pickup setting data set by the setting means; image pickup means for carrying out image pickup by using the image pickup setting data varied by the variation means, and for recording image data in an associated relationship with the scene, the cut, or the take; construction table recording means for recording the image pickup setting data varied by the variation means onto the construction table in an associated relationship with the scene, the cut, or the take; and means for transmitting the construction table, the construction table cross-referencing recommendation preview image pickup setting data with use preview image pickup setting data on a scene-by-scene basis, or cross-referencing recommendation actual image pickup setting data with use actual image pickup setting data on a scene-by-scene basis.