Abstract: A high-speed video camera having a solid-state image sensor consisting of a plurality of pixel blocks arranged lengthwise and breadthwise, each pixel block consisting of a plurality of pixels arranged lengthwise and breadthwise, a control device for controlling so that exposure times of pixels in each of the pixel blocks are different from one another, and a control device for controlling so that a plurality of different address are assigned to the pixels, respectively, the same address are assigned to the pixels of the same coordinate in the pixel blocks, and exposure times of pixels of the same address in the pixel blocks are the same with one another.

Abstract: A high-speed video camera having a plurality of solid-state black-and-white image pickup elements to which same scene is projected, respectively, each of said image pickup elements consisting of a plurality of photoelectric conversion element rows, some of which are scanned at the same time. A high-speed color video camera having a plurality of solid-state black-and-white image pickup elements and a plurality of solid-state color image pickup elements to which same scene is projected, respectively, each of image pickup elements consisting of a plurality of photoelectric conversion element rows, some of which in the solid-state black-and-white image pickup elements are scanned at the same time so that a luminance signal component is obtained therefrom, and some of which in the solid-state color image pickup elements are scanned at the same time so that a color signal component is obtained therefrom. The luminance signal component and the color signal component are synthesized to form a color image.