Patent ID: 7053955

Claim:
An electronic still camera, comprising: a lens to form an image of a subject; a distant measuring section to measure a distance to a subject and to output a distance signal; an image capturing focusing section having a driving section to shift the lens within a scanning range determined based on the distance signal, an image capturing element to output an image signal of the image of the subject and a detecting section to detect a focusing point of the lens based on the image signal; a light measuring section to measure a luminance of the subject and to output a luminance signal; and a strobe section having a selectable strobe mode to emit strobe light in response to a release operation; wherein the image capturing focusing section limits the scanning range of the lens within a range in which the strobe light effectively reaches when the luminance of the subject represented by the luminance signal is lower than a predetermined luminance level and the strobe mode of the strobe section is selected.