Image pickup and signal transmission

A high-speed image pickup apparatus obtains the same image quality as that of a standard-speed image pickup by simply converting a high-speed video signal (50) into a plurality of standard-speed video signals. A video camera system comprises a video camera (10) for outputting a video signal (50) by picking up an object at a high speed. A transmitting path transmits the video signal to a signal processor (12, 13). The signal processor (12, 13) signal-processes the transmitted video signal, and divides the high-speed video signal into a plurality of standard-speed video signals (501-503) directly or by providing a blank field as an additional period by the video camera. The plurality of standard-speed video signals are transmitted by a transmitting path (23). By dividing a high-speed video signal into a plurality of channels of standard signals and signal-processing them, a high-speed photographing video camera system can be formed simply.