1. Apparatus for producing a sampled color image signal having first and second sampled color components, comprising: an image sensor having a regular array of image sensing elements and a regular array of first and second colored filter elements registered on the image sensor for producing the sampled color image signal, one sample per image sensing element; an objective lens for forming a color image on said image sensor; an optical device including a pair of spaced-apart dichroic mirrors for displacing the first color component of said color image with respect to the second color component by an amount equal to the width of an integral number of image sensing elements such that an image sensing element having a first colored filter element registered thereon and a neighboring image sensing element having a second colored filter element registered thereon receive light from the same portion of the image; and a delay device for synchronizing the sampled color components of the image signal by delaying samples of the first color component of the signal with respect to samples of the second color component by an integral number of samples corresponding to said integral number of image sensing elements, whereby a color image produced from said color image signal is free from color fringing.