Patent ID: 7924343

Claim:
A photographing apparatus, comprising: a photographing device which photographs an image of an object; an illumination device which emits light at the photographing time and illuminates the object; a face detection device which detects a face area and a size of the face area of the person of the object from the image photographed by the photographing device; an object distance calculating device which calculates an object distance to the object from the photographing device based on the size of the face area; a photographing sensitivity setting device which sets a photographing sensitivity according to the calculated object distance; a pre-emission control device which performs a pre-emission to illuminate the object by the illumination device and performs a pre-emission photographing by the photographing device with the set photographing sensitivity; and a main emission control device which performs the main emission photographing by controlling an exposure based on a pre-emission image obtained by the pre-emission photographing.