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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2008
Naoto Yamada, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Matsui, Fujisawa, JP;
Zhaoxiang Chen, Kawasaki, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fully charged battery or an unused battery is set in a battery box of a lighting apparatus. A user turns on an illumination electric source of the apparatus and selects the battery. A maximum number of lighting times Smax when the lighting apparatus causes manual full lighting Mby using the selected battery is stored in a memory of a microcomputer or IC by a user according to an operating button or an instruction on a liquid crystal screen. Next, the user performs normal shooting. A lighting amount (TTL lighting, manual full lighting, or the like) when the user performs shooting is converted to manual full lighting Mto be obtained as a number of lighting times. By comparing the obtained number of lighting times with the maximum number of lighting times Smax, how many times of lighting can still be performed at a maximum is calculated.