A camera comprises a light metering device (9) for measuring brightnesses of a plurality of light metering areas (8a-e) of an object field (8) in response to a light from the object field (8) to generate brightness outputs, a photographing scene setting device (7) for setting a photographing scene and producing photographing scene information a selection device for selecting a brightness output to be used for exposure calculation from the brightness outputs based on the output of the photographing scene setting device (7), and exposure calculation device (13) for calculating an exposure value based on the brightness output selected by the selection device. <IMAGE>
