Fill-in light emitting apparatus and still video camera

Claim 1

A strobe emission apparatus, comprising: an illuminator that emits a plurality of strobe lights at different color temperatures; a single charge accumulator that supplies an electric charge to said illuminator; a light quantity measuring device that measures a quantity of light from a photographing object; a color temperature measuring device that measures a color temperature of ambient light; an emission quantity determining device that sets a color temperature of light emitted by said apparatus, said emission quantity determining device determining an emission quantity of strobe light for each of said plurality of strobe lights in accordance with said color temperature of ambient light measured by said color temperature measuring device; and an emission controller that controls an emission of said plurality of strobe lights, said emission controller stopping said emission of strobe light after one of: said quantity of light, from the photographing object, measured by said light quantity measuring device reaches a predetermined value representative of a determined emission quantity of a selected strobe light; and after a maximum emission quantity has been reached for said selected strobe light, based upon said color temperature measured by said color temperature measuring device, wherein said emission controller controls said illuminator so that said plurality of strobe lights are successively emitted in an order from a strobe light having a smallest determined emission quantity to a strobe light having a greatest determined emission quantity.