Electronic still camera.

摘要

@ An electronic still camera including a shutter (2), an image sensor (3), a recording device (4, 5, 9) for recording an output signal from the image sensor, a power source (7) for supplying electric power to the image sensor (3) and recording device (14), and a shutter button (8) is disclosed, in which immediately after the operation of the shutter button (8) is detected, the shutter is made open and an optical image of a body to be imaged is formed on the light receiving surface of the image sensor (3) in a state that scanning and reading operations for the image sensor (3) are inhibited, the above state is maintained till the recording device reaches a recordable state, to accumulate electric charge corresponding to the optical image in the image sensor (3) for an open period of the shutter (2), and a scanning operation for the image sensor (3) is started after the recording device (4, 5, 9) has rached the recordable state, in order for the recording device to record the output signal from the image sensor (3).