A technique for producing electronic video signals representative of color images
of a scene, includes the following steps: providing a luminance sensor and a color
sensor having a color filter thereover; providing a pellicle beamsplitter, and
providing a motion picture film camera type of lens system that focuses light from
the image, via the beamsplitter, onto the luminance sensor and the color sensor;
and producing electronic video signals from outputs of the luminance sensor and
the color sensor. The pellicle can be ultrasonically excited to effect optical prefiltering.
