Patent attributes
The invention includes an image sensor, a shutter which opens/closes by making a front curtain and a rear curtain travel, a light source which illuminates the image sensor, a control unit which performs control to make the front and rear curtains travel with a predetermined time shift to form a slit-like opening, and to make the light source emit light a predetermined period of time after the start time of traveling of the front and rear curtains, a detection unit which detects the deviation between the position of an image of the recorded slit-like opening and a predetermined reference position, a computation unit which calculates the error between the traveling start timing of the front and rear curtains on the basis of the detected deviation, and a correction unit which corrects the calculated error between the traveling start timing of the front and rear curtains.