Electronic printer camera

In an electronic printing camera in which an optical image of an object obtained through an image pick-up lens is converted into an electric signal by a solid-state image pick-up element sensor and further converted into an image signal by an analog processing circuit, after which the image signal is converted into digital image data by an A/D converter followed by storing the digital image data in a RAM, thereafter the digital image data is outputted to a printer for printing;

• the improvement wherein the electronic printing camera further comprises:
• a storage means for storing image processing programs which process each of the digital image data stored in the RAM and output the processed digital image data to the printer;
• a plurality of pushbutton switches for selecting the image processing programs stored in the storage means;
• and
• a control means for controllably driving the printer by outputting to the printer the digital image data stored in the RAM according to a selected image processing program;
• whereby any of the pushbutton switches is adapted to set a monitor image processing program by which the digital image data stored in the RAM as an image processing program is outputted to the printer as a monitor image corresponding to the object image, and to execute the monitor image processing program at the same time of taking a photograph of the object, said control means including a CPU adapted to read a predetermined image processing program from a ROM storing a variety of image processing programs by a selecting operation of the pushbutton switches, and means for processing the digital image data stored in the RAM and outputted to the printer so as to print a predetermined image having one of the three following characteristics:
• a) 112.times.143 dots and a size of 14 mm.times.19 mm;
• b) 448.times.570 dots and a size of 56 mm.times.76 mm;
• or
• c) 224.times.285 dots and a size of 28 mm.times.38 mm.