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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Kensuke Ishii, Tokyo, JP;
Saori Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Arata Shinozaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kiiko Takamatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitaka Sata, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A shooting device includes a shooting module; a detection unit that detects whether a finder device is mounted on the shooting device; a storage module that stores first information and second information; and a control unit that controls a lens module to perform a first operation based on the first information and a second operation based on the second information, wherein the first information and the second information indicates a range of a parameter for controlling the lens module, the parameter is used for controlling an aperture or an angle of view of the lens module, the range indicated by the first information is determined by excluding a partial range from the range indicated by the second information based on whether the parameter is used for controlling the aperture or the angle of view of the lens module.