digital camera

American  

noun

Digital Technology.

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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Etymology

Origin of digital camera

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

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

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

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of the universe.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 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