ELECTRONIC RECORDING CAMERA WITH FRONT PROJECTOR

A dual function electronic recording portrait camera that divides the image-forming light reflected from a portrait subject and received through the front lens of the camera into a first optical image portion which passed, upon shutter opening, to a frame of photographic film for recording thereon as a photographic image and into a second optical image portion which is passed to a video charge coupled device with an electronic image array for conversion to an electronic image. The electronic image is viewed before and at the instant of shutter opening through a video display unit associated with the camera and the electronic image is recorded in the memory of a microprocessor associated with the camera at the instant of shutter opening. The recorded electronic image corresponds exactly to the photographic image recorded on film and the electronic image may be recalled from the memory of the microprocessor for video display and review by the camera operator and the portrait subject. Based upon the review of a number of video-displayed, electronically-recorded poses of the portrait subject, selection of one or more preferred poses can be made prior to development of film containing frames of photographic images corresponding exactly to the displayed electronic images.