A color picture solid-state pickup element comprising a solid-state image sensor and a colored matrix microfilter. The image sensor has photo elements arranged in a matrix. The horizontal lines are paired into scanning lines. The scanning lines alternate between two fields, one field being read after the other. The microfilter has rows of uniform colors, with a row covering one horizontal line. Every other row is of a first primary or complementary color. The remaining rows alternate between two other primary or complementary colors.