1. An IC card camera comprising: an image input unit having an image forming part for forming an image of a subject on an image forming surface and an image pick-up part for capturing the image on said image forming surface and generating digital image data; and a camera body having a memory, a memory controller, and a connector, said camera body being directly coupled to said image input unit and being an IC card insertable into a card slot of an external information processing device, image data from said image input unit being stored in said memory and the stored image data being transferred to the external information processing device electrically connected to the IC card camera via said connector, said camera body further including image processing means for implementing image processing on image data transferred from said image input unit and on image data read from said memory, and an interface, connected to said connector and to said memory, said memory controller, and said image processing means, for enabling data transmission and reception between at least one of said memory, said memory controller and said image processing means, and the external information processing device.