A photographing apparatus of interlace transferring type comprising: a photographing device which carries out transfer of electric charges of all pixels stored in the photographing device when transferring the electric charges and which has a plurality of color filters and which includes a color signal of at least RGB or YeCyMgG in transfer data for transferring said electric charges; extraction means for extracting characteristic data of an image from transferred data; generating means for generating a control value for carrying out correction of the image based on said extracted characteristic data; and image processing means for processing the image by use of the control value formed by said characteristic data; wherein the photographing apparatus is further configured as follows: - the transfer of electric charges of all pixels is carried out by dividing data transfer of electric charges of all pixels into a plurality of fields when transferring the electric charges; characterized in that - all color signal components of RGB or YeCyMgG can be obtained with the data transfer in each field; and - the extraction of characteristic data is carried out on the basis of the transfer data in a first field after the transfer of the transfer data into the first field has been completed and before incorporation of the transfer data in the remaining fields is finished, so that characteristic data of an image over the entire surface of a screen is obtained on the basis of said transfer data in the first field, - the generating means is configured to generate the control value by calculating the control value from the characteristic data just since the data transfer in a second field is started. a photographing device which carries out transfer of electric charges of all pixels stored in the photographing device when transferring the electric charges and which has a plurality of color filters and which includes a color signal of at least RGB or YeCyMgG in transfer data for transferring said electric charges; extraction means for extracting characteristic data of an image from transferred data; generating means for generating a control value for carrying out correction of the image based on said extracted characteristic data; and image processing means for processing the image by use of the control value formed by said characteristic data; wherein the photographing apparatus is further configured as follows: - the transfer of electric charges of all pixels is carried out by dividing data transfer of electric charges of all pixels into a plurality of fields when transferring the electric charges; characterized in that - all color signal components of RGB or YeCyMgG can be obtained with the data transfer in each field; and - the extraction of characteristic data is carried out on the basis of the transfer data in a first field after the transfer of the transfer data into the first field has been completed and before incorporation of the transfer data in the remaining fields is finished, so that characteristic data of an image over the entire surface of a screen is obtained on the basis of said transfer data in the first field, - the generating means is configured to generate the control value by calculating the control value from the characteristic data just since the data transfer in a second field is started. - the transfer of electric charges of all pixels is carried out by dividing data transfer of electric charges of all pixels into a plurality of fields when transferring the electric charges; characterized in that - all color signal components of RGB or YeCyMgG can be obtained with the data transfer in each field; and - the extraction of characteristic data is carried out on the basis of the transfer data in a first field after the transfer of the transfer data into the first field has been completed and before incorporation of the transfer data in the remaining fields is finished, so that characteristic data of an image over the entire surface of a screen is obtained on the basis of said transfer data in the first field, - the generating means is configured to generate the control value by calculating the control value from the characteristic data just since the data transfer in a second field is started.