When a picture image recorded by a digital camera is reproduced, a high
quality picture image is immediately reproduced without repetitive test
prints for enhancing a picture quality or repetitive minor adjustments
based on a confirmation via a monitor. Recording is carried out by a
digital camera having a function of adding recording information
representing a recording condition (a recording information adding unit)
to digital image data obtained by the recording. A set-up processing unit
in an image reproducing apparatus carries out image processing on the
image data obtained by the recording for enhancing a picture quality
using the recording information added to the image data, and the image
reproducing apparatus reproduces the image data in the form of a print or
a display on a monitor.