Abstract: A lighting device for a card simultaneous photographing camera which is easy to operate and which permits miniaturization includes a pair of lenses, with a first lens 2 for person photographing and a second lens 3 for card photographing mounted in a row on the front of the card simultaneous photographing camera 1, a semitransparent reflector plate 18 installed so that it may move back obliquely from the top edge of a nearly box-shaped casing fixed or installed through a frame change-over mechanism corresponding to both lenses, and extend up to the front of a flash window 12 of strobe flash device 10, a lens hood 21 corresponding to the lens 2 for person photographing, a card holding frame 23 for holding the card exchangeably corresponding to the lens 3 for card photographing, and a light diffusion box 25 provided between the reflection side of the semitransparent reflector plate 18 and the card holder.