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

While they shot in black and white on set with a digital camera and customized image mapping, the conversion was done in parallel: colorizing the monochrome footage with different mapping and fine-tuning.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

Dycam sold the first commercially available digital camera in 1990.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Located high in the Chilean Andes, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory houses the world's most powerful digital camera.

From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2025

Given that a digital camera is now in most every pocket, queer photography’s bracing fusion of the personal and the exotic is pretty threadbare, since exoticism no longer applies to being queer in American life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

Miss Esther arrived with donuts and a new digital camera at six thirty in the morning.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry