digital camera

American

noun

Digital Technology.

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

digital camera British

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of digital camera

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

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Next to “Bestbuy,” the list mentioned a digital camera and USB drive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 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

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

A family in Wales say they are "overjoyed" after a digital camera they lost on the Isles of Scilly seven years ago has been found intact.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2025

The bodyguard activated a compact digital camera and began photographing each wafer-thin page of the Book.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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