US 2014/0111624 A1 · SHOOTING APPARATUS AND SHOOTING CONTROL METHOD

Abstract

A shooting apparatus has an image pickup section, a display section which displays an image picked up by the image pickup section, an operation section for performing operations including a shooting command, a communication section which performs communication with a further shooting apparatus, a determination section which determines a left-right placement relationship between the shooting apparatus and the further shooting apparatus from a predetermined position held by the user with a right hand or a left hand or from a predetermined operation, and a control section which, by transmitting a signal to the further shooting apparatus through the communication section, performs control for causing at least a portion of an image picked up by the further shooting apparatus to be transmitted from the further shooting apparatus.

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Dependent claims

A shooting apparatus comprising:

an image pickup section which performs image pickup;
a display section which displays an image picked up by the image pickup section;
a release button which enables a two-step operation including a half-push operation and a full-push operation;
an operation determination section which determines whether the operation is the half-push operation or full-push operation;
and
a communication section which performs communication for requesting communication with another shooting apparatus different from the shooting apparatus through the half-push operation with the release button, and performs communication for requesting shooting condition data by the other shooting apparatus.

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Shooting apparatus and shooting control method

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