PURPOSE: To make the voices before and after photographing reliably recordable by controlling the start of recording using a shutter trigger button operation and the delay output of a delay circuit.

CONSTITUTION: A memory control circuit 14 is connected to a half-push switch 2 and sends a data writing start signal to a memory 7 when the switch 2 is made on to start data writing. A shutter 8 is installed between a lens 9 and a film 10. Further a full-push switch 3 is connected to a delay circuit 11, which is connected to the shutter 8 and a memory control circuit 14. When the full- push switch 3 is made on, the delay circuit 11 immediately open the shutter 8 to expose the film 10 to light. When a specified period of time passes after the switch 3 is made on, the delay circuit 11 generates a data writing finish signal to be inputted to a semiconductor memory 7 and outputs it to the memory control circuit 14.