digital camera

noun, Digital Technology
1.
a camera that records images in digital form by means of a device that converts the optical image to an electrical signal.
Examples from the web for digital camera
  • And finally, go for a discrete digital camera that can be stowed away.
  • Choosing a school will never be as easy as choosing a digital camera.
  • The films are usually shot with a digital camera, in somebody's apartment, and run about eighty minutes.
  • The question now is whether to go the whole hog and buy a serious digital camera for work as well as play.
  • So the lenses are what make the difference when the digital camera has a large sensor.
  • Trying to do so with a compact digital camera or smartphone is out of the question.
  • These images are monitored by a digital camera positioned behind the diffuser.
  • All of these sizes present an obvious limit: they are too big to fit in a mobile phone, or a small digital camera.
  • And they want to charge a premium, equivalent to an iPod or digital camera in price.
  • The original vision was to create a printer small enough to fit inside a digital camera.
British Dictionary definitions for digital camera

digital camera

noun
1.
a camera that produces digital images that can be stored in a computer, displayed on a screen and printed
digital camera in Technology

graphics, hardware
A camera that captures and stores still images as digital data instead of on photographic film.
The first digital cameras became available in the early 1990s[?].
[Which and when was the first?]
(2000-08-10)