Patent ID: 6985170

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup device which comprises an optical element absorbing rays having specific wavelengths, a second optical element reflecting rays having specific wavelengths and an image pickup device having an organic color mosaic filter, wherein a total spectral characteristic of a combination of said optical element absorbing the rays having the specific wavelengths and said optical element reflecting the rays having the specific wavelengths satisfies the following condition (1): 0.45≦|ΔT/ΔW|≦0.75 (1) wherein the reference symbol ΔT is given by an equation shown below when transmittance at a wavelength of 550 nm is represented by T(550) and transmittance at a wavelength of 600 nm is designated by T(600), Δ T=T (600)− T (550), and the reference symbol ΔW denotes 50 nm.