A process for picking up and recording electrostatic images continuously in which, while a photosensitive material having a photoconductive layer formed on an electrically conductive layer is located in spaced opposition to a charge carrier medium having an insulating layer on an electrically conductive layer, said photoconductive layer is exposed to light in accordance with an image of said images while a voltage is provided between both said electrically conductive layers, characterized in that after said voltage-applied exposure, residual charges are removed out of the surface of said photosensitive material or a residual image is eliminated from the surface of said photosensitive material by charging it uniformly, whereupon the next voltage-applied exposure is carried out for picking up said images continuously, said steps of locating said photosensitive material, exposure and removal of residual charges being performed repeatedly in synchronization for recording said images on said charge carrier medium successively frame-by-frame.