Patent 7760240 was granted and assigned to Samsung on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Provided is a method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus in which when a shutter release button is pressed while in one of a plurality of still image photographing modes, a still image is photographed according to a photographing condition of the still image photographing mode. If the shutter release button is pressed together with one of a plurality of setting buttons in the still image photographing mode, a moving picture is photographed according to the photographing condition of the still image photographing mode.