To provide an exposure controller and an exposure control method capable of confirming an artificially printed state, that is, deciding whether appropriate exposure is obtained before exposing film.

A camera 1 is composed of a shutter part 12 and a diaphragm part 11 which are constituted so that a specified shutter condition and a diaphragm condition are automatically decided according to an electrical signal in response to the state of received light from a subject 9, a principal lens 10 and a film holding part 14 holding the film 13. Then, the exposure controller 100 of the camera 1 is provided with a monitor display means 11 displaying the image of the subject 9 in order to previously confirm the image information of the real subject 9 to be projected on the film 13 at a stage before the shutter part 12 and the diaphragm part 11 are actuated.