To allow a camera recorder to pickup or record an image as desired by particularly set contents by allowing a remote control system to unlock a specific locking state with respect to a remote control device by prescribed unlocking operation.

A program of prescribed operation is stored in a various program storing part 40 and a CPU 38 refers to the program stored in the part 40 to collate. When unlocking operation is prescribed one as the result of collation, the CPU 38 unlocks a locking state of specific remote control in a remote control part 6. Thus, data on specific operation or setting with respect to a camera recorder is transmitted through a cable or by radio from a data transmission and reception part 42 and the setting is changed or the like from a remote position by operating the part 6. In this case, the CPU of the camera recorder responds to the data from a remote control device 4 received by the data transmission and reception part and the camera recorder has the setting or the like changed by this.