Photographing and recording method and apparatus for electronic still picture cameras

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a photographing and recording method and apparatus for an electronic still picture camera, capable of providing reduced power consumption and rapid photographing performance.
Thus, the present invention features that upon the releasing operation of a shutter the revolution of a magnetic disk is started and the magnetic disk is rotated at a constant revolution velocity by a revolution velocity servo system, that the phase of the vertical synchronizing signals during the post-exposure period of reading the signal charges from a solid-state image pickup device and then recording the signal charges on the disk is shifted with respect to the phase of the vertical synchronizing signals during the preexposure draining operation of the extraneous charges of the image pickup device and that the shifted phase condition of the vertical synchronizing signals is reset in response to the start of the next exposure, thereby establishing a predetermined phase difference between the vertical synchronizing signals and the revolution of the disk.