PURPOSE: To facilitate the arrangement and the retrieval of the image of film and to simplify the order of extra printing.

CONSTITUTION: The image of the developed film is picked up and converted into original digital image data expressing the image. The original digital image data is converted into reduced digital image data expressing a reduced image. The reduced digital image data is stored in a disk for a user. The original digital image data is stored in a recording medium for a laboratory with the identification code of film. The identification code is imparted to the film and the disk for the user where the reduced digital image data is stored. The original digital image data is read out from the recording medium for the laboratory and the picture of the image expressed by the data is printed. The identification code is recorded on the disk for the user instead of imparting the identification code to the disk for the user. An image reproducing program (hypertext) is stored in the disk for the user.