ELECTRONIC CAMERA WITH LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY

An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic camera with a liquid crystal display, which is pocket-sized enough to be put into or out of a pocket, of low power consumption, and vibration-resistant, and, what is more, exhibits a high calculating ability and has a high-speed performance. The present invention comprises a camera unit 3 photographing an object to be photographed, a circuit including an ADC 78 converting picture signals photographed by the camera unit into digital picture signals, a compression-encoding unit 80 compression-encoding the digital picture signals, a memory 65 storing the compression-encoded picture signals, an expansion-decoding unit 81 expansion-decoding the compression-encoded picture signals stored in the memory, a DAC 83 converting the picture signals expansion-decoded in the expansion-decoding unit into analog signals, and a microcomputer 73 controlling the compression-encoding unit, storage into the memory and the expansion-decoding unit, and a liquid crystal display unit 2 displaying the above-described analog picture signals. To store the picture signals compression-encoded in the compression-encoding unit in the circuit, an IC card which is formed by arranging a plurality of multi-storied flash memories in parallel, is mountable on the rear surface side of the camera opposite to the liquid crystal display unit, thereby to achieve the above-described object.