Imaging apparatus and camera system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoyuki Nakagawara
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus capable of performing photographing in which a light emitting unit executes main light emission includes a photometric unit that executes photometry, a selection unit that selects a certain area in a photographing screen, and a control unit that determines a main light emission amount of the light emitting unit based on a photometric value acquired by photometry executed by the photometric unit when the light emitting unit executes pre-flash emission and controls, based on a position of the area selected by the selection unit, a light receiving amount of the photometric unit during a photometry period for acquiring the photometric value used for determining the main light emission amount.
Claims13
An imaging apparatus configured to perform photographing with a light emitting unit executing main light emission, the imaging apparatus comprising:
- photometric unit configured to execute photometry;
- a selection unit configured to select an area in a photographing screen;
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- a control unit configured
- to determine a main light emission amount of the light emitting unit based on a photometric value acquired by photometry executed by the photometric unit with pre-flash emission of the light emitting unit and
- to, based on a position of the area selected by the selection unit, control a light receiving amount of the photometric unit during a photometry period for acquiring the photometric value used for determining the main light emission amount.
A camera system including a light emitting apparatus and an imaging apparatus configured to perform photographing with the light emitting apparatus executing main light emission, the camera system comprising:
- a photometric unit configured to execute photometry;
- a selection unit configured to select an area in a photographing screen;
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- a control unit configured to determine a main light emission amount of the light emitting apparatus based on a photometric value acquired by photometry executed by the photometric unit with pre-flash emission of the light emitting unit, and to, based on a position of the area selected by the selection unit, control a light receiving amount of the photometric unit during a photometry period for acquiring the photometric value used for determining the main light emission amount.
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