A picture-taking system includes a film camera for capturing a photographic image of a subject on photosensitive film, and a video camera having a solid-state electronic image sensing device 12, for outputting a video signal representing the photographic image of the subject. Essentially the same photographic image of the subject is photographed by both the film camera and the video camera under a single strobe flash generated by a strobe light-emission device 40. To achieve this synchronized photography and simplify the synchronized photography control system, it is arranged so that the video camera responds to a photographic trigger signal from a shutter switch by generating, and applying to the film camera, a shutter release signal the vertical synchronizing signal of the video camera as a reference. The shutter of the film camera starts opening in response to the shutter release signal. Upon passage of a fixed time up to the moment at which the shutter is opened fully, the video camera generates an electronic-shutter control signal using its vertical synchronizing signal as a reference and initiates exposure of the solid-state electronic image sensing device. Immediately thereafter, the video camera applies a strobe fire-permitting signal to the strobe light-emission device to fire a strobe flash.