Patent ID: 7432974

Claim:
An image pickup system characterized by comprising, at least: an electronic image pickup device satisfying the following condition (41) and including a complementary filter comprising at least four color filter elements, an image pickup optical system having spectral characteristics given by the following conditions (42) and (43) and, provided for guiding a light beam from an object, side of the image pickup system to the electronic image pickup device, and a controller for carrying out signal processing and image processing on the basis of an output from the electronic image pickup device: 1.0×10 −4 <p/d< 6.0×10 −4 (41) 8× T 700 <T 600 (42) T 400 <T 600 (43) where d is the diagonal length of an effective image pickup area of the image pickup device, p is the center separation between horizontal pixels, T 400 is a 400 nm transmittance, T 600 is a 600 nm transmittance and T 700 is a 700 nm transmittance.