An image pickup apparatus includes: a plurality of image pickup devices configured to pick up images of a same object and sequentially read the images for each line； an objective optical system configured to form the images at different image-forming positions on the image pickup devices； a memory configured to record predetermined time differences for reading the leading positions of the effective pixels of the images at the same timing； and an I2C control circuit configured to control the image reading timing of the image pickup devices by generating a plurality of synchronizing signals based on a master synchronizing signal and supplying the synchronizing signals to the image pickup devices after shifting the synchronizing signals by the respective predetermined time differences.
