PURPOSE: To provide a camera system for optically recording sound information on a photograph film provided with corresponding image information.

CONSTITUTION: A camera control processor 34 controls the operations of a recording circuit 36, an optical encoding circuit 38, an optical write head 30, a shutter mechanism and a carrying mechanism corresponding to instruction signals received from a user interface 14, records the sound segments of various durations and encodes the sound segments as a sound film frame at a position adjacent to a last image film frame as a carrying means sends the film and passes it through the optical write head 30.