digital camera

American  

noun

Digital Technology.

• digital cameras
  plural

1. a camera that records images in digital form by means of a device that converts the optical image to an electrical signal.

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digital camera British  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• digital cameras
  plural

Etymology

Origin of digital camera

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

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digital camera

In contrast, when you choose to turn on a digital camera and play with its settings or add an album to your iPod library "you move towards something you want versus it coming at you".

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

The Chile-based observatory debuted last June and captures exceptionally detailed views of the sky with the world's largest digital camera.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

At a Knicks–Pacers game, she took photos of everything on a digital camera, and she wore nonrecording oval cat-eye sunglasses on her Citi Bike date with Timothée Chalamet.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

Dycam sold the first commercially available digital camera in 1990.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

The camera is marked twenty dollars, which doesn’t seem like too much for a digital camera that works.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt