digital camera

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.

digital camera

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of digital camera¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

It’s not unusual to see them roaming the aisles of a record store or doing sidewalk photo shoots with digital cameras, as if they had traveled back to the early 2000s.

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AI tools can allow filmmakers to be more efficient, just as digital cameras and LED lights have done.

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A lot of games have a photo mode where you can pause the game and put a digital camera anywhere in the 3D space.

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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.

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

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