Patent ID: 7616874

Claim:
An image-taking apparatus which includes an imaging device and generates image signal by forming a subject image on the imaging device, comprising: a light emitting section which emits independently-controlled light to a plurality of irradiation areas into which a shooting angle of view is two-dimensionally divided; a light-receiving section which receives reflected light independently from the plurality of irradiation areas; an emission-controlling section which causes the light-emitting section to emit pre-emission light to the plurality of irradiation areas before taking an image and which causes the light-emitting section to emit fill light for shooting to the plurality of irradiation areas based on the amount of reflected light from the plurality of irradiation areas received by the light-receiving section, which resulted from the pre-emission light, when taking an image, and a distance-measuring section which measures a subject distance, wherein the emission-controlling section causes the light-emitting section to emit pre-emission light whose amount is based on a result of distance measurement by the distance-measuring section.