PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To continuously photograph a plurality of images having different brightness by specifying the number of images to be photographed. SOLUTION: In an AE bracket photographing, the gain of an image signal outputted from an imaging element, a shutter speed and an iris value are successively and independently controlled respectively in a range of 12 to 0 dB, in a range of 1/30 to 1/500 sec and in a range of F2.8 to F8.0, so that a range of 0 to 9 EV value is set as a range capable of controlling the brightness of an image as a whole. An exposure value in the AE bracket photographing is set by an interval of a value obtained by dividing the controllable range by a value obtained by subtracting "1" from the number of images to be photographed. Consequently a plurality of images having surely different brightness can be obtained. This invention can be applied to a digital camera. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT