A solid state television camera having a solid state image sensing device and an optical color filter. The color separating characteristics of the color filter are so selected that when a predetermined horizontal scanning line is scanned the solid state image sensing device produces a standard red color signal and a luminance signal sequentially and alternately, and when an adjacent horizontal line is scanned, a blue color signal and luminance signal are produced in the same manner. In this way, different color difference output signals are simultaneously obtained at every horizontal scanning line, and based upon the color difference output signals and luminance signal, there is produced therefrom a standard color video signal.