Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasunobu Kodama
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus comprises a photometry unit which detects a luminance of an object; a determining unit which determines, based on a result of photometry at a first exposure, whether to perform autoexposure bracketing that captures a plurality of images at different exposures; a calculating unit which calculates an exposure change amount that is different from the first exposure used when performing the autoexposure bracketing; a correcting unit which corrects the calculated exposure change amount based on a result of photometry at a second exposure that is different from the first exposure; and a shooting control unit which shoots an image at the exposure change amount calculated by the calculating unit or the exposure change amount corrected by the correcting unit.
Claims14
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- a photometry unit configured to detect a luminance of an object;
- a determining unit configured to determine, based on a result of photometry at a first exposure, whether to perform autoexposure bracketing that captures a plurality of images at different exposures;
- a calculating unit configured to calculate an exposure change amount that is different from the first exposure used when performing the autoexposure bracketing;
- a correcting unit configured to correct the calculated exposure change amount based on a result of photometry at a second exposure that is different from the first exposure;
- and
- a shooting control unit configured to shoot an image at the exposure change amount calculated by the calculating unit or the exposure change amount corrected by the correcting unit.
A control method of an image capturing apparatus which captures an image of an object, the method comprising:
- detecting a luminance of the object;
- determining, based on a result of photometry at a first exposure, whether to perform autoexposure bracketing that captures a plurality of images at different exposures;
- calculating an exposure change amount that is different from the first exposure used when performing the autoexposure bracketing;
- correcting the calculated exposure change amount based on a result of photometry at a second exposure that is different from the first exposure;
- and
- shooting an image at the exposure change amount calculated in the calculating step or the exposure change amount corrected in the correcting step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.