Patent ID: 6928239

Claim:
A system which includes a camera body, an interchangeable lens mounted on the camera body, and a strobe light mounted on the camera body, and performs preliminary emission before main emission in strobe light photographing, comprising: a unit which has a plurality of regions for splitting a field into a plurality of fields and performing photometry, and measures light reflected by an object to be photographed by preliminary emission in the plurality of regions; a unit which detects distance information of the object from a position of a focusing lens; a unit which determines precision of the distance information; a unit which calculates a proper photometry level from the distance information; a unit which calculates an identification level for identifying an abnormal reflection region on the basis of the proper photometry level and a distance precision set in accordance with a determination result of the precision; a unit which compares photometry values of the plurality of regions or light adjustment regions out of the plurality of regions with the identification level, thereby determining an abnormal reflection region; and a unit which controls an main emission amount by photometry values of reflected object light in the plurality of regions or the light adjustment regions out of the plurality of regions from which the abnormal reflection region is excluded.