a solidstate digital television camera which has a solid state image sensing device , an a - d converter for converting the output of the image sensing device to a digital color signal , a filter for providing a predetermined filter characteristic to the digital color signal , and a digital color modulator for modulating the output of the above filter to produce a digital modulated signal . in the digital television camera , the processing rate between the solid state image sensing device and the filter is selected to have a sampling rate equal to that of the solid state image sensing device , or pf sc where f sc is a color subcarrier frequency , p is 3 or 4 , and m and n are relatively small integers . the processing rate for the remaining elements is selected to be pf sc . in addition , a d - d converter for converting the processing rate from pf sc to pf sc is provided between the filter and the digital modulator . thus , the digital television camera can be operated at a relatively slow sampling drive rate and can be constructed from integrated circuits .