Flash photographing apparatus

Claim 2

A flash photographing apparatus including a camera and an electric flash device, comprising: first light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a main object in a particular light receiving region within a camera photographing area and outputting first brightness information in response to this light measurement; second light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a sub object in a region within said camera photographing area other than said particular light receiving region and outputting second brightness information in response to this light measurement; first means for calculating exposure control data for flash photography on the basis of the second brightness information; means for controlling a diaphragm aprerture and shutter speed of said camera according to the exposure control data; second means for calculating data for controlling a quantity of flash light emission according to a difference between said first and second brightness information; and, means for controlling the quantity of flash light emission on the basis of the flash emission controlling data.

Claim 3

An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: a photographing lens having a focus adjusting mechanism; and, means for detecting a focus condition of said photographing lens on the basis of an incident light received in a particular focus detecting region through said photographing lens, and driving said focus adjusting mechanism to an in-focus position of said photographing lens; wherein the particular focus detecting region corresponds to the particular light receiving region of said first light measuring means, and the first brightness information is a brightness information at the time when said photographing lens is in the in-focus position.

Claim 4

An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising: means for storing the first brightness information according to a manual operation; wherein the particular light receiving region of said first light measuring means is located at a center of the camera photographing area, and the first brightness information is a brithtness information when said storing means is manually operated.

Claim 5

A flash photographing apparatus including a camera and an electronic flash device, comprising: first light measuring means for measuring a brightness light incident luminance from a main object in a particular light receiving region within a camera photographing area and outputting first brightness information in response to this light measurement; second light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a sub object in a region within said camera photographing area other than said particular light receiving region and outputting second brightness information in response to this light measurement; means for discriminating whether a difference between the first and second brightness information exceeds a given level or not; means for calculating, operative when it is discriminated that the difference exceeds the given level, exposure control data on the basis of the second brightness information so that exposure for said sub object with ambient light be overexposure with respect to a proper exposure value; means for controlling a diaphragm aprerture and shutter speed of said camera according to the exposure control data, means for controlling the quantity of flash light emission on the basis of light which is reflected by the object illuminated by said electronic flash device.

Claim 6

A flash photographing apparatus including a camera and an electronic flash device, comprising: first light measuring means for measuring a brightness light incident luminance from a main object in a particular light receiving region within a camera photographing area and outputting first brightness information in response to this light measurement; second light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a sub object in a region within said camera photographing area other than said particular light receiving region and outputting second brightness information in response to this light measurement; means for discriminating whether a difference between the first and second brightness information exceeds a given level or not; means for calculating, operative when it is discriminated that the difference exceeds the given level, exposure control data on the basis of the second brightness information so that exposure for said sub object with ambient light be overexposure with respect to a proper exposure value; means for controlling a diaphragm aprerture and shutter speed of said camera according to the exposure control data, means for controlling the quantity of flash light emission on the basis of light which is reflected by the object illuminated by said electronic flash device.

Claim 7

An apparatus as set forth in claim 4, further comprising: a photographing lens having a focus adjusting mechanism; and, means for detecting a focus condition of said photographing lens on the basis of an incident light received in a particular focus detecting region through said photographing lens and, driving said focus adjusting mechanism to an in-focus position of said photographing lens; wherein said particular focus detecting region corresponds to the particular light receiving region of the first light measuring means, and the first brightness information is a brightness information at the time when said photographing lens is in the in-focus position.

Claim 8

An apparatus as set forth in claim 4, further comprising: means for storing the first brightness information according to a manual operation; wherein the particular light receiving region of said first light receiving means is located at a center of the camera photographing area, and said first brightness information is a brightness information when said storing means is namelly operated.

Claim 9

An apparatus as set forth in claim 4, wherein said second light measuring means comprises a plurality of light receiving regions and outputting a plurality of brightness information corresponding to said plurality of light receiving regions as the second brightness information; and said exposure calculating means determines a maximum brightness among the plurality of brightness information and calculates exposure control data so that the maximum brightness be in the vicinity of an upper limit of film latitude.

Claim 10

A flash photographing apparatus including a camera and an electronic flash device, comprising: a first light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a main object in a particular light receiving region within a camera photographing area and outputting first brightness information in response to this light measurement; second light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a sub object in a region within said camera photographing area other than said particular light receiving region and outputting second brightness information in response to this light measurement; means for discriminating whether a difference between the first and second brightness information exceeds a given level or not; first means for calculating, operative when it is discriminated that the difference exceeeds the given level, exposure control data on the basis of the second brightness information so that exposure for said sub object with ambient light be overexposure by a predetermined value with respect to a proper exposure value; means for controlling a diaphragm aprerture and shutter speed of said camera according to the exposure control data; second means for calculating data for controlling a quantity of flash light emission according to a difference between the exposure control data calculated by said first calculating means and an exposure control data which is determined on the basis of the first brightness information so that exposure with ambient light be a proper exposure value; and, means for controlling the quantity of flash light emission on the basis of the flash controlling data.

Claim 11

A flash photographing apparatus including a camera and an electronic flash device, comprising: a first light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a main object in a particular light receiving region within a camera photographing area and outputting first brightness information in response to this light measurement; second light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a sub object in a region within said camera photographing area other than said particular light receiving region and outputting second brightness information in response to this light measurement; means for discriminating whether a difference between the first and second brightness information exceeds a given level or not; first means for calculating, operative when it is discriminated that the difference exceeeds the given level, exposure control data on the basis of the second brightness information so that exposure for said sub object with ambient light be overexposure by a predetermined value with respect to a proper exposure value; means for controlling a diaphragm aprerture and shutter speed of said camera according to the exposure control data; second means for calculating data for controlling a quantity of flash light emission according to a difference between the exposure control data calculated by said first calculating means and an exposure control data which is determined on the basis of the first brightness information so that exposure with ambient light be a proper exposure value; and, means for controlling the quantity of flash light emission on the basis of the flash controlling data.

Claim 12

An apparatus as set forth in claim 8, further comprising: a photographing lens having a focus adjusting mechanism; and, means for detecting a focus condition of said photographing lens on the basis of an incident light received in a particular focus detecting region through said photographing lens and, driving said focus adjusting mechanism to an in-focus position of said photographing lens; wherein the particular focus detecting region corresponds to the particular light receiving region of said first light receiving means, and the first brightness information is a brightness information at the time when said photographing leans is in the in-focus position.

Claim 13

A flash photographing apparatus including a camera and an electronic flash device, comprising: a first light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a main object in a particular light receiving region within a camera photographing area and outputting first brightness information in response to this light measurement; second light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a sub object in a region within said camera photographing area other than said particular light receiving region and outputting second brightness information in response to this light measurement; means for calculating exposure control data on the basis of the second brightness information so that exposure for said sub object with ambient light be overexposure by a predetermined value with respect to a proper exposure value; means for controlling a diaphragm aprerture value and shutter speed of said camera according to the exposure control data; and, means for controlling the quantity of flash light emission on the basis of light which is reflected by the object illuminated by said electronic flash device.

Claim 14

A flash photographing apparatus including a camera and an electronic flash device, comprising: a first light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a main object in a particular light receiving region within a camera photographing area and outputting first brightness information in response to this light measurement; second light measuring means for measuring a brightness of light incident from a sub object in a region within said camera photographing area other than said particular light receiving region and outputting second brightness information in response to this light measurement; means for calculating exposure control data on the basis of the second brightness information so that exposure for said sub object with ambient light be overexposure by a predetermined value with respect to a proper exposure value; means for controlling a diaphragm aprerture value and shutter speed of said camera according to the exposure control data; and, means for controlling the quantity of flash light emission on the basis of light which is reflected by the object illuminated by said electronic flash device.

Claim 15

An apparatus as set forth in claim 10, wherein said flash emission control means comprises: second means for calculating data for controlling a quantity of flash light emission according to a difference between the exposure control data calculated by said first calculating means and an exposure control data which is determined on the basis of the first brightness information so that exposure with ambient light be a proper exposure value; and, means for controlling the quantity of flash light emission on the basis of the flash controlling data.

Claim 16

A flash photographing control apparatus, comprising: a plurality of light measuring means for measuring a plurality of brightness, respectively, of incident light received by a plurality of light receiving regions corresponding to a plurality of divided photographing picture areas and outputting a plurality of brightness signals corresponding to the respective light measurements; and, means for outputting a maximum brightness signal among the plurality of brightness signals; mean for integrating the maximum brightness signal during flashing; and, means for controlling a quantity of flash light emission so that flashing is stopped when the integrated value reaches a predetermined value.

Claim 17

A flash photographing control apparatus, comprising: a plurality of light measuring means for measuring a plurality of brightness, respectively, of incident light received by a plurality of light receiving regions corresponding to a plurality of divided photographing picture areas and outputting a plurality of brightness signals corresponding to the respective light measurements; and, means for outputting a maximum brightness signal among the plurality of brightness signals; mean for integrating the maximum brightness signal during flashing; and, means for controlling a quantity of flash light emission so that flashing is stopped when the integrated value reaches a predetermined value.