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

It's Saturday afternoon and I've nearly fallen at the first hurdle – I've left my digital camera battery on charge at home.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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

Shot on a handheld digital camera, the film applies an anarchic home-movie aesthetic to a superbly performed, discomfitingly comic drama of darkness within a family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

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

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