Patent ID: 7796184

Claim:
A camera system including a camera head having an image-taking optical system and an image pickup device and a camera main body having the camera head detachably mounted thereon that receives an image signal from the camera head and performs a signal conversion process, wherein: the camera main body comprises: a type recognizing section that recognizes a type of the camera head mounted on the camera main body; a capability determining section that determines whether or not the camera main body is the one capable of performing a signal conversion process to convert the image signal received from the camera head of the type recognized by the type recognizing section to the image signal consisting of a luminance signal and a chromaticity signal; a signal conversion processing section that performs the signal conversion process to the image signal received from the camera head of the type determined to be capable of the signal conversion process by the capability determining section; and an image display section that has a display screen having an image displayed thereon and displays the images based on the image signal having undergone the signal conversion process in the signal processing section and the image signal having omitted the signal conversion process in the signal processing section on the display screen depending on whether or not determined to be capable of performing the signal conversion process by the capability determining section respectively, wherein: in the case where the capability determining section determines that the mounted camera head is a type of camera head incapable of performing the signal conversion process in the signal processing section, and the number of vertical and horizontal pixels of the image pickup device of the camera head does not match with the number of vertical and horizontal pixels of the display screen, the signal processing section does not perform the signal conversion process but performs a pixel number adjustment process that adjusts the number of pixels by mixing mutually adjacent pixels; and the image display section displays the image based on the image signal after the pixel number adjustment process on the display screen.