digital camera
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of digital camera
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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The flash of a digital camera went off like a strobe as Yair Lopez documented his friends before their night at an afterparty.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
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
Later this year the largest digital camera ever built will begin working at the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, able to capture the night sky in incredible detail.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025
The 3200-megapixel digital camera that will serve as the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is complete and will head to Chile for integration, researchers announced this week.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024
The next present was the digital camera I’d begged my parents for all last summer.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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