Remote-control device for digital camera
View Patent ↗A remote-control device controls a digital camera, to make the digital camera perform a particular photographing operation having a continuous photographing operation or a bulb photographing operation. The remote-control device may be a personal computer. A start-command generating processor generates a start-command for starting the particular photographing operation, by depressing a switch, which may be a button of a mouse for the personal computer. An end-command generating processor generates an end-command for ending the particular photographing operation, by releasing the switch.
1. A remote-control system, comprising:
a digital camera that performs at least one of a continuous photographing operation and a bulb photographing operation;
a setting processor which sets photographing modes for the continuous photographing operation and the bulb photographing operation;
a start-command transmitting processor that is provided in a computer, which is independent from said digital camera, said start-command transmitting processor generating a start-command for starting one of said continuous photographing operation and the bulb photographing operation when a switch is depressed; and
an end-command generating processor that is provided in said computer, said end-command generating processor generating an end-command for ending the started one of said continuous photographing operation and the bulb photographing operation when said switch is released,
wherein, in the mode for the continuous photographing operation, the continuous photographing operation is started when the switch is depressed, and the continuous photographing operation is ended when the switch is released, and
wherein, in the mode for the bulb photographing operation, a shutter is opened when the switch is depressed, and the shutter is closed when the switch is released.
2. A remote-control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein said digital camera continuously performs said continuous photographing operation for a period from receiving said start-command to receiving said end-command.
3. A remote-control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein said switch is provided on a mouse for said computer.