Flash apparatus

A camera comprising:

• a first circuit arrangement which detects which one of a plurality of individual areas into which a photographing area is divided includes a main subject;
• a second circuit arrangement which detects backlighted conditions of the individual areas of the photographing area;
• a third circuit arrangement which judges, in response to results of detection of said second circuit arrangement, a backlighted condition of one of the areas which is detected by said first circuit arrangement;
• an arrangement which corrects exposure of the main subject for which a backlighted condition is judged by said third circuit arrangement;
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• a device which determines a reproducing area within one frame to a special horizontally elongated format in which a ratio of a horizontal direction size against a vertical direction size is more than three over two, wherein said first circuit arrangement detects said main subject only in an area along a horizontal direction within said horizontally elongated reproducing area.