A camera system has a device for recording an image of a photographing field in a recording medium such as a photographing negative color film, a photometering device for forming brightness information concerning the brightness of the photographing field, and a color information forming device for forming, in accordance with the brightness information, color information concerning the color of the light from a light source for illuminating the photographing field. The printing process after the deployment of the image is executed with a suitable control of the printing exposure light quantity in accordance with the color information so that a color print of a good quality can be obtained with a high reproducibility of the color.