Patent ID: 7039307

Claim:
A digital still camera for carrying out a first exposure without a flashlight and a second exposure with a flashlight, said digital still camera comprising: a photometric device for measuring subject brightness; exposure determining circuit for determining exposure conditions in said first exposure to obtain proper exposure amount according to said subject brightness measured by said photometric device, and for determining exposure conditions in said second exposure to satisfy the following formula; AV 1 +TV 1 −SV 1 +2≦ AV 2 +TV 2 −SV 2 , wherein SV 1 , AV 1 , and TV 1 represent each APEX value of a photographic sensitivity, an aperture value, and a shutter speed in said first exposure, and SV 2 AV 2 , and TV 2 represent each APEX value of said photographic sensitivity, said aperture value, and said shutter speed in said second exposure; a white balance adjustment circuit for adjusting white balance of an image obtained in said first exposure with a parameter according to available light, and for adjusting said white balance of said image obtained in said second exposure with a parameter according to flashlight; and an image process circuit for creating a composite image by synthesizing images obtained in said first exposure and said second exposure.