To make the device smaller in size by devising a total volume of an image-pickup unit and a recording and reproducing unit to be a sum of each volume or below.

Part of a occupied area of an image-pickup unit 1 provided with an optical lens 11 and a charge-coupled device(CCD) 12 as major components is contained within an occupied area of a recording and reproducing unit that records/reproduces image information to/from a magnetic tape, based on an image signal from the CCD 12. Specifically, the CCD 12 is placed in the vicinity of a component such as a rotary drum of the recording and reproducing unit, so that there is no hindrance to an image-forming optical path 13 formed from the optical lens 11 to the CCD 12, at least in the case of recording and reproduction of the magnetic tape, thereby keeping the image-forming optical path 13 proper.