in an image pickup apparatus having an image pickup device and a shutter speed control circuit for controlling a shutter speed of the image pickup device , the shutter speed control circuit is comprised of a circuit for generating a sensor gate pulse in accordance with a vertical scanning timing so as to output an accumulated charge in the image pickup device , a circuit for generating a saw tooth signal being reset to a predetermined voltage level in accordance with the sensor gate pulse , an inclination of the saw tooth signal in just before reset to the predetermined voltage level being larger than the same in just after reset to the predetermined voltage level , a circuit for comparing a voltage level of an output signal of the image pickup device with the saw tooth signal so as to generate a gate pulse , and a circuit for controlling an accumulating period of the image pickup device in accordance with the gate pulse .