Patent ID: 6707995
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
A camera using a flash emitter for emitting a flash light towards an object to be photographed, said camera comprising:a multi-AF sensor having a plurality of detection areas for receiving a reflected light, passing through a photographing lens, from the object, in which each of the detection areas outputs a signal; an AF controller for determining a detection area of the detection areas as a focus area on a basis of the signal outputted from the each of the detection areas of the multi-AF sensor; a selector for selecting a detection area of the detection areas as an optimum area which is most suitable for photographing the object, on a basis of the signal outputted from the each of the detection areas of the multi-AF sensor, in which the signal outputted from the each thereof corresponds to the reflected light from the object on a basis of a preliminary flash light emission made by the flash emitter prior to a main flash light emission made by the flash emitter; and a controller for determining an amount of flash light emission made by the flash emitter at time of the main flash light emission, on a basis of the signal outputted from the optimum area selected by the selector.