Camera with an interrupting unit, and camera with an inhibiting unit

An electronic camera, comprising:

• a lens part;
• a flash unit for flashing light;
• a covering unit for covering at least a portion of an aperture of said lens part;
• a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is covered with said covering unit;
• and
• a shooting-process interrupting unit for interrupting a shooting processing when said determining unit determines, immediately before a flash emission from said flash unit, that at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is covered.

An electronic camera, comprising:

• a lens part being position-changeably mounted on a body of said electronic camera;
• a position changing unit for changing a degree of how much an aperture is hidden by said body, in accordance with a change of a position of said lens part;
• a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is hidden by said body and the lens part is located at an unsuitable position for shooting an image;
• a movie imaging unit for imaging a movie;
• and
• an imaging interrupting unit for interrupting the movie imaging of said movie imaging unit when said determining unit determines, during the movie imaging, that said lens part is located at an unsuitable position for the movie imaging.

An electronic camera, comprising:

• a lens part being position-changeably mounted on a body of said electronic camera;
• a flash unit for flashing light;
• a position changing unit for changing a degree of how much an aperture is hidden by said body, in accordance with a change of a position of said lens part;
• a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is hidden by said body and the lens part is located at an unsuitable position for shooting an image;
• and
• a shooting-process interrupting unit for interrupting a shooting processing when said determining unit determines, immediately before a flash emission from said flash unit, that said lens part is located at an unsuitable position for shooting an image.

An electronic camera, comprising:

• a lens part;
• a covering unit for covering at least a portion of an aperture of said lens part;
• a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is covered with said covering unit;
• an image pickup unit for imaging a subject with said lens part to produce an image signal;
• an amplifying unit for amplifying the image signal outputted from said image pickup unit;
• and
• a gain control unit for controlling a gain of said amplifying unit according to a determination result from said determining unit.

An electronic camera, comprising:

• a lens part;
• a covering unit for covering at least a portion of an aperture of said lens part;
• a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is covered with said covering unit;
• an image pickup unit for imaging a subject with said lens part to produce an image signal;
• a display unit for displaying an image of the subject according to the image signal produced by said image pickup unit;
• and
• a display control unit for controlling image display of said display unit according to a determination result from said determining unit.

A camera, comprising:

• a lens part;
• a covering unit for covering at least a portion of an aperture of said lens part;
• a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is covered with said covering unit;
• an inoperative-state detecting unit for measuring a duration of time for which the camera is powered on but not in operation;
• a power saving unit for setting an operation mode of the camera to a power saving mode when the duration of time measured by said inoperative-state detecting unit is equal to or longer than a predetermined duration of time, the power saving mode being a mode in which power consumption is reduced;
• and
• a selecting unit for selecting one of predetermined durations of time according to a determination result from said determining unit, the predetermined durations of time being durations for which the camera is powered on but not in operation, and on the basis of which said power saving unit enters into the power saving mode.

An electronic camera, comprising:

• a lens part being position-changeably mounted on a body of said electronic camera;
• a position changing unit for changing a degree of how much an aperture is hidden by said body, in accordance with a change of a position of said lens part;
• a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is hidden by said body and the lens part is located at an unsuitable position for shooting an image;
• an image pickup unit for imaging a subject with said lens part to produce an image signal;
• an amplifying unit for amplifying the image signal outputted from said image pickup unit;
• and
• a gain control unit for controlling a gain of said amplifying unit according to a determination result from said determining unit.

An electronic camera, comprising:

• a lens part being position-changeably mounted on a body of said electronic camera;
• a position changing unit for changing a degree of how much an aperture is hidden by said body, in accordance with a change of a position of said lens part;
• a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is hidden by said body and the lens part is located at an unsuitable position for shooting an image;
• an image pickup unit for imaging a subject with said lens part to produce an image signal;
• a display unit for displaying an image according to the image signal produced by said image pickup unit;
• and
• a display control unit for controlling the image display of said display unit according to a determination result from said determining unit.

A camera, comprising:

• a lens part being position-changeably mounted on a body of said electronic camera;
• a position changing unit for changing a degree of how much an aperture is hidden by said body, in accordance with a change of a position of said lens part;
• a determining unit for determining whether at least a portion of the aperture of said lens part is hidden by said body and the lens part is located at an unsuitable position for shooting an image;
• an inoperative-state detecting unit for measuring a duration of time for which the camera is powered on but not in operation;
• a power saving unit for setting an operation mode of the camera to a power saving mode when the duration of time measured by said inoperative-state detecting unit is equal to or longer than a predetermined duration of time, the power saving mode being a mode in which power consumption is reduced;
• and
• a selecting unit for selecting one of predetermined durations of time according to a determination result from said determining unit, the predetermined durations of time being durations for which the camera is powered on but not in operation, and on the basis of which said power saving unit enters into the power saving mode.