Instant special effects electronic camera

An electronic camera for providing instant hard copy pictures, comprising:

• an image sensor including a plurality of photosensors arranged in an array for providing analog image data outputs proportional to the intensity of light incident on the respective photosensors, said image sensor further including additional processing circuitry;
• an analog to digital converter for digitizing the analog image data outputs of said photosensor array;
• a memory for storing the digitized image data from said image sensor;
• a microcontroller coupled with said image sensor, said microcontroller operable to retrieve said digitized image data from said memory by way of said image sensor and to prepare said digitized image data for printing, wherein said microcontroller processes said image data in accordance with special effects information;
• a printer operating under control of said microcontroller to provide a hard copy picture;
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• a replaceable special effects cartridge having read-only memory for storing said special effects information.