To provide a digital camera, a photographing control method, and a photographing control program enabling a user to surely photograph at intended timing even upon automatic photographing based on image recognition.
When a prescribed photographing mode is set, a through image display is started, and a target mark M is simultaneously displayed on a screen. The user is made to designate an optional position in a viewing angle by a moving operation of the target mark M. Then, processing for performing image recognition of a prescribed recognition target, such as the face of a particular person or an optional person is continuously performed with a particular area 200 corresponding to the specified position as a target, and when the recognition target is recognized (c), a prescribed operation about photographing such as still picture photographing is performed with the recognition as a trigger.
NARA KAZUYA
SAITO KOICHI
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