Image recording apparatus with adjustable image data compression rate

摘要

The invention is based on an electronic still camera (11) for converting a taken optical image of the subject into digital image data, and recording into a memory card (400) incorporating semiconductor memories, in which the digital image data obtained from this electronic still camera (11) is stored in a large-capacity recording medium through an exclusive recording device, or displayed in plural monitors (801), or stored in a disk or magnetic tape by existing recording devices (802, 803), or even compressed, expanded, edited or processed, so that it may satisfy versatile requests of users sufficiently.