Patent ID: 8675124

Claim:
An electronic camera that stores color image signals of a subject image captured with a taking lens and an imaging device, the electronic camera comprising: a color temperature determining device that determines a color temperature of subject light; an electronic flash light source that emits electronic flash light, said electronic flash light source having electroluminescences as a light source and at least one diffusion plate which diffuses light from the electroluminescence; a white balance correcting device that corrects a white balance of the color image signals irrespective of light emission of the electronic flash light source; and an adjusting device that can change a color temperature of the electronic flash light, wherein when the white balance correcting device is set to an automatic white balance adjusting mode in performing shooting with an electronic flash, the adjusting device changes the color temperature of the electronic flash light to a color temperature that is newly determined in shooting by the color temperature determining device, wherein when the white balance correcting device is set to a manual white balance adjusting mode in performing shooting with an electronic flash, the adjusting device changes the color temperature of the electronic flash light to a color temperature that is set in accordance with a manual input by a user, and wherein the color temperature determining device determines the color temperature of the subject light from the color image signals of the subject image captured with the taking lens and the imaging device.