Abstract: An apparatus employing a flashlight device such as an electronic still camera, a camcorder, etc. with an adequate luminous quantity during sensing an image, independently of an electric charge accumulation period in an image sensing device, thereby to make an adequate exposure obtainable no matter what a shutter speed may be.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus and method which controls a noise reduction process under various photographing conditions and various functions of the apparatus, including a system control unit that controls a noise reduction unit by setting the noise reduction control mode to a zoom stop mode under conditions that an electronic zoom unit and a zoom lens are stopped, and controls the noise reduction unit by setting the noise reduction control mode to a zoom operation mode under conditions that either the electronic zoom unit or the zoom lens is operated.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording a video signal while forming a multiplicity of recording tracks in parallel on a tape-shaped recording medium, wherein camera information representing the operating state of a camera when shooting each picture is recorded in a position corresponding to the recorded track of that picture so that the operating state of the camera at the time of taking the video signal which has already been recorded can reappear. Therefore, in a case where a video signal is recorded in continuity with this recorded portion, the camera operating state is controlled in a joint portion of these to improve the continuity in this joint portion.