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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2008
Tooru Ueda, Asaka, JP;
Tooru Ueda, Asaka, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A photographing apparatus comprises: a photographing device which takes an image of a subject; a focusing control device which controls the focusing status of the photographing device in response to an input of a focusing instruction; a focusing judgment device which, upon an input of the photographing instruction after the input of the focusing instruction, judges whether or not a focus position at the time of the input of the focusing instruction is optimum; and a photographing control device which controls to execute photographing using the focus position as it is if the focus position at the time of the input of the focusing instruction is judged to be optimum, and controls to execute photographing after performing focusing control again if the focus position is judged to be not optimum.