A solid state color camera having an image sensing device which has a plurality of image sensing cells aligned in both the horizontal and vertical directions, an optical filter which produces three primary color separated images on the image sensing device, a circuit which reads out an image signal as to satisfy an interlaced signal reading system of a standard television signal, the image signal being comprised of a luminance signal and a chrominance modulated carrier signal, a circuit which supplies a carrier signal to the reading out circuit, the carrier signal being selected approximately equal to or half of a standard color sub-carrier frequency, and a circuit selecting vertical and horizontal frequencies of a read out image signal.