Abstract: Apparatus, and an accompanying method, for use in illustratively a photographic camera for selecting shutter speed and lens aperture values to provide a given exposure level in a captuerd image, e.g. a photograph, of a scene. Specifically, first an appropriate shutter speed value is initially selected as that which sufficiently reduces image blur attributable to camera shake. The shutter speed selection is based upon lens focal length and, where appropriate, camera shake data obtained through either accessing stored camera shake data or measuring actual real-time shake data. Once the shutter speed has been selected, then the lens aperture value is initially chosen as that, which in conjuction with the selected shutter speed, provides a baseline, typically an ISO normal, exposure of the scene. If the chosen lens aperture provides a greater depth-of-field than that required by the scene, i.