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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1997
Hiroshi Wakabayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Hidenori Miyamoto, Urayasu, JP;
Sueyuki Ohishi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshio Imura, Kawasaki, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A camera including a flashlight device for emitting a flashlight, a shutter, such that the camera has a flash synchro photographing mode in which the flashlight device emits the flashlight in synchronism with the shutter, a vibration detector for detecting a vibration quantity of the camera, a vibration correcting device for correcting an image blur on the basis of a vibration signal output from the vibration detector. The camera also includes a control device for controlling, while performing flash photographing by use of the flashlight device and driving the vibration correcting device, the shutter so that a maximum shutter time in the flash synchro photographing mode is shorter than or equal to a maximum shutter time in a non-emission of the flashlight. As a result, the flashlight device does not emit the flashlight.