To reduce the useless consumption of battery storage electric power and the delay in photographing timing which arise as a result of by activating a red-eye reduction function regardless of the form of photographing, such as monochromatic or sepia photographing and a recording form that an image compression ratio is large and image quality degrades with a camera having the red-eye reduction function.

If the photographing mode of the camera is set at a monochromatic photographing mode while the camera is in a state that stroboscopic light emission is activated (YES in S104), the execution of a step 106 to activate the red-eye reduction function is prohibited. When a monochromatic film is detected to be housed in an APS cartridge and the camera is in a state that stroboscopic light emission is activated, the activation of the red-eye reduction function is prohibited.