Patent ID: 7907841

Claim:
A camera, comprising: a light emission device that can perform a main light emission lighting a photographic subject during photography of the photographic subject and can perform a preliminary light emission, before the main light emission, lighting the photographic subject for calculation of an amount of emitted light of the main light emission; a color information calculation unit that calculates color information for ambient light; a color temperature determination unit that determines a color temperature of illumination light of the preliminary light emission, based upon the color information calculated by the color information calculation unit; a control unit that controls the light emission device to perform the preliminary light emission at the color temperature of the illumination light of the preliminary light emission determined by the color temperature determination unit; and an amount of emitted light calculation unit that calculates the amount of emitted light of the main light emission using an amount of light reflected back from the photographic subject during the preliminary light emission, wherein: the control unit controls the light emission device to perform the main light emission with the amount of emitted light calculated by the amount of emitted light calculation unit.