Color camera

A color camera comprising:

• an optical system adapted to focus image light from a subject;
• an imaging device having sensitivity to at least the visible to near-infrared region and adapted to project an image focused by the optical system and thereby generate a video signal;
• a multilayer infrared cut filter placed at any location on an optical path running from the subject to the imaging device, with a cutoff wavelength being set in the vicinity of a boundary between the visible region and the near-infrared region, and adapted to allow passage of the near-infrared region close to the boundary with the visible region when an incident angle is small and shift the cutoff wavelength toward shorter wavelengths with increases in the incident angle to decrease passage of the near-infrared region;
• an incident angle varying mechanism adapted to vary the incident angle of the image light from the subject with respect to the multilayer infrared cut filter;
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• a drive unit adapted to drive the incident angle varying mechanism according to the amount of light on the subject by an operator's operation or automatically and thereby decrease the incident angle when an amount of light on the subject is small or increase the incident angle when the amount of light on the subject is large.