Patent ID: 7612809

Claim:
A camera apparatus, comprising: an optical system; a photographing element for converting a light signal of an object to be photographed from the optical system to an electric signal; an A/D conversion unit for converting the electric signal from the photographing element to image data; a control means for compressing the image data from the A/D conversion unit, converting the compressed image data to a prescribed format, and producing thumbnail image data corresponding to the compressed and converted image data; and means for recording the image data of the prescribed format corresponding to each photographed object starting at a head end of a data area on an optical disc and recording the thumbnail image data sequentially backwards from a terminal end of the data area on said optical disk; whereby the image data is physically separated from the corresponding thumbnail image data, wherein the image data of the prescribed format is read by a personal computer from the optical disc without being transferred to the personal computer.