Camera for selectively recording images recorded on a photographic film on a magnetic tape

A camera for recording images on a photographic film in a cartridge having machine readable identification data and for recording selected ones of such recorded film images on a magnetic tape having tracks corresponding to image data files and image identification data for each image data file in a cartridge, comprising:

• a) means for receiving a cartridge which can contain either photographic fill or magnetic tape;
• b) optical means for recording an image of a subject on the photographic film when a photographic film cartridge is disposed in the cartridge receiving means;
• c) means for reading cartridge identification data from a photographic cartridge;
• d) image storage means including an image sensor for simultaneously storing an image of the subject as an image is being exposed on the photographic film and for storing image identification data from the photographic cartridge;
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• e) means responsive to a cartridge containing magnetic tape being disposed in the cartridge receiving means for selectively recording files representing images from the image storage means onto the image file tracks and the image identification data onto the image identification data tracks and photographic cartridge identification data of the magnetic tape.