Shooting equipment communicating system

A shooting equipment communicating system including portable shooting equipment and mobile communications equipment which is moved together with the portable shooting equipment and communicates with said portable shooting equipment, wherein:

• said mobile communications equipment comprises:
• a database section for storing map data, location information about regions and sites included in a map represented by the map data, and region-/site-related information comprising descriptive information about the regions and the sites identified by the location information, the region-/site-related information being other than the map data and the location information;
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• a retrieving section for retrieving the relevant region-/site-related information from the database section depending on the input location information;
• and transmits the region-/site-related information retrieved by the retrieving section to said portable shooting equipment;
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• said portable shooting equipment comprises a shooting section for performing photography shooting of a subject and a storage section for receiving and storing the region-/site-related information retrieved by said retrieving section;
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• said shooting section has a display for displaying at least one of the subject taken and information selected from the region-/site-related information stored in said storage section;
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• wherein the retrieving section retrieves the relevant region-/site-related information in order of importance;
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• wherein the database section stores the region-/site-related information in a hierarchical structure of ranks of importance.