Patent ID: 7546032

Claim:
An electronic camera comprising: a light-emitting unit for emitting light, color components of which can be changed; a color-component obtaining unit for obtaining color components involved in any one of light from a light source for illuminating an object and light reflected by the object; a color-component determining unit for determining color components of light to be emitted by the light-emitting unit based on the color components obtained by the color-component obtaining unit; and a light-emitting control unit for making the light-emitting unit emit light involving color components determined by the color-component determining unit; wherein the light-emitting unit comprises plural light-emitting members for emitting respective color-component lights, and the light-emitting unit selects at least one light-emitting member from among the plural light-emitting members of the light-emitting unit to make the selected light-emitting members emit respective color component lights simultaneously, whereby the light emitting unit emits light involving the color components determined by the color-component determining unit; and wherein the electric camera further comprises an image pick-up unit for performing a photographing operation in response to a photographing instruction given by a user to photograph an object, and a photographing-operation control unit for controlling a light-emitting operation of the light-emitting unit and a photographing operation of the image pick-up unit; and wherein the photographing -operation control unit changes a combination of the light-emitting members of the light-emitting unit, which emit color-component light simultaneously, and makes the image pick-up unit continuously perform photographing operations plural time with color components of light corrected in response to one photographing instruction given by the user.