To prevent destruction of a switching element due to high currents and to realize flat emission by controlling the quantity of electronic flash light.

In this electronic flash device, a CPU 1 determines the quantity of light emitted by the xenon tube of an electronic flash emission circuit 7 on the basis of the output result of an AE circuit 3 and an AF circuit 2. On the basis of this emitted light quantity, the number of times of the emission by the xenon tube of the electronic flash light emitting part 7 is determined to obtain flat emission. This number of times of the emission is changed by the CPU 1 according to the output of a charging circuit 8.