PURPOSE: To select optionally and individually the recording start timing and the pickup timing by starting sound collection to a sound storage memory by the 1st operation, picking up and image by the 2nd operation and recording the sound stored in a recording medium by the 3rd operation.

CONSTITUTION: When a shutter button 5 is turned on at the 1st stage, the sound caught by a microphone 4 is stored in a sound storage memory 19, sound collection is started and when the sound collecting time (t) is equal to the timewise storage capacity tμ, the sound storage is stopped. When the shutter button 5 is turned on at the 2nd stage, the shutter is switched, an image pickup device 11 picks up the image and the picture is recorded magnetically in a magnetic disc 16 immediately. In turning off the shutter button 5 in the 1st stage, the sound signal stored in the memory 19 is recorded magnetically on the magnetic disc 16 and a series of recordings are finished. Thus, the sound collection start timing and the image pickup timing are selected optionally according to the state.