To provide a photographing device capable of setting a photographic condition to an object which a photographer intends to photograph.

An imaging means 20 acquires an image of the object before photographing the object. AN extraction means extracts a first partial image being in a preliminarily determined area, from the image acquired by the imaging means 20. A determination means 28 determines a photographic condition in accordance with a second partial image in an area which is a prescribed vector apart from the first partial image, in the image acquired by the imaging means 20.

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