| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus which can conduct an optimum stroboscopic light emission control without being adversely affected by the position of a main body to be photographed within a viewing angle and reflectivity. <P>SOLUTION: When it is turned on to a second SW in a SW judging process 21 and it is judged that a stroboscopic operation is required ("yes" in S10) in the stroboscopic judging process of the step S10, a multi-point range finding process 24 is again conducted and a distance comparing process 25 conducts comparison to judge whether a range finding area, that matches with first distance information stored in a memory 9 at the time of a first SW is turned on, exists or not. When the area having approximately same range finding data exists as a result of the comparison, the area is assumed to be the area where the main body to be photographed is located and the area of a stroboscopic light receiving section, which receives stroboscopic light emission, is set so that the range finding area becomes the center. Then, pre-light emission is actually conducted by a pre-light emission/light measuring process and reflected light beams are measured by the stroboscopic light receiving section. When the amount of the reflected light beams is greater than a reference reflection amount, the actual stroboscopic light emission amount is reduced. When the measured reflected light beam amount is less than the reference reflection amount, the actual stroboscopic light emission amount is increased (S10 to S17). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
