Patent ID: 8831414

Claim:
An imaging apparatus capable of imaging using a light emitting device, the apparatus comprising: a light metering value acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of light metering values corresponding to each of a plurality of light metering regions; a color information acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of color information corresponding to each of the plurality of light metering regions; a determination unit configured to determine a weighting coefficient of each of the plurality of light metering regions; a calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of main flash light after performing weighting of the light metering value of each of the plurality of light metering regions according to the weighting coefficient determined by the determination unit; and a selection unit configured to select, from the plurality of light metering regions, a reference region which is used when the weighting coefficient of each of the plurality of light metering regions is determined by the determination unit, wherein the selection unit selects the reference region in such a manner that a light metering region different from a light metering region whose color information acquired by the color information acquisition unit satisfies a condition indicating gold is preferentially selected.