An
image recording and reproducing apparatus, an image
pickup apparatus, and a
chromatic aberration correcting method capable of performing excellent correction
processing of an aperture amount of an iris and a lens image height of an object in an image
pickup lens are provided. An output
signal from a camera
signal processing circuit 4 is selected by a switch 5 to be supplied to a
chromatic aberration correction unit 6. An aperture amount of an iris 31 provided in an image
pickup lens 1 and coordinates of a pixel, to which correction
processing is performed, from the
chromatic aberration correction unit 6 are supplied to a conversion ratio calculation unit 10. A driving state such as a
zoom focal length and
focal position of the image pickup lens 1 and a camera shake correction vector are supplied to the conversion ratio calculation unit 10. Then, a conversion ratio for each color is obtained to be supplied to the chromatic aberration correction unit 6. Further, a
signal corrected in the chromatic aberration correction unit 6 is compressed in a
data compression circuit 15 to be supplied to a recording medium in a recording and reproducing apparatus 17. A signal reproduced from the recording and reproducing apparatus 17 is decompressed in a data decompression circuit 18 to be supplied to the switch 5. Accordingly, picture-quality degradation occurring in a miniaturized image pickup lens can be corrected by processing a picked-up
image signal, and excellent correction processing can be performed on an aperture amount of an iris and a lens image height of an object in the image pickup lens.