Strobe device and photography device provided with same

A strobe device comprising:

• a strobe main body mounted on an imaging device that captures an image of a subject;
• a light emitter;
• a vertical direction changer that changes an angle in a vertical direction of the light emitter, the vertical direction changer including a first driver that drives the light emitter in the vertical direction;
• a horizontal direction changer that changes an angle in a horizontal direction of the light emitter, the horizontal direction changer including a second driver that drives the light emitter in the horizontal direction;
• a distance measurer that obtains distance information indicating a distance to the subject;
• an imager that captures an image of an imaging area including the subject;
• a subject recognizer that generates subject recognition information that identifies and recognizes the subject from image information of the imaging area captured by the imager;
• and
• a drive controller that controls, according to movement of the subject, an angle in the vertical direction and an angle in the horizontal direction of the light emitter with respect to the strobe main body,
• wherein the vertical direction changer further includes a vertical direction angle detector that detects vertical direction angle information of the light emitter in the vertical direction,
• the horizontal direction changer further includes a horizontal direction angle detector that detects horizontal direction angle information of the light emitter in the horizontal direction, and
• the drive controller controls operations of the first driver and the second driver, based on the vertical direction angle information and the horizontal direction angle information of the light emitter, the distance information and the subject recognition information.