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A digital camera, also called a digicam, [1] is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, [2] largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film or film stock.
Digital photography is a kind of photography where a digital camera is used to take photos. Digital cameras use an image sensor instead of photographic film. Very often, they also use a memory card to store the photos in a digital format. Most photography is digital, though some photographers still use the old film cameras.
A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the sensor.. The reflex design scheme is the primary difference between a DSLR and other digital cameras. In the reflex design, light travels through the lens and then to a ...
Leica camera (1950s) Hasselblad 500 C/M with Zeiss lens. A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.As a pivotal technology in the fields of photography and videography, cameras have played a significant role in the progression of visual arts ...
Manual modes: Manual (M), Program (P), Shutter priority (S), Aperture priority (A). Automatic modes: Auto, Action, Portrait, Night Portrait, Landscape, Macro. Most digital cameras support the ability to choose among a number of configurations, or modes for use in various situations. Professional DSLR cameras provide several manual modes ...
An artist utilizing an 18th-century camera obscura for image tracing. The camera obscura, the precursor of the photographic camera, is a natural optical phenomenon named after its Latin translation, "dark room".It projects an inverted image (flipped left to right and upside down) of a scene from the other side of a screen or wall through a small aperture onto a surface opposite the opening.
Digital camera, device for making digital recordings of images. Texas Instruments patented the first filmless electronic camera in 1972, and Sony sold the first commercial model in 1981. Digital cameras supplanted film cameras and were replaced in turn by smartphone cameras in the 2010s.
By the mid-1990s the familiar digital camera shape was established that would last for the next decade or more. In 1995, the Ricoh RDC-1 was the first digital still camera to also shoot movie ...
D. Digital camera backs (1 C, 11 P) Digital cameras with CCD image sensor (108 P) Digital cameras with CMOS image sensor (12 P) Digital movie cameras (44 P) Digital rangefinder cameras (19 P) Digital SLR cameras (16 C, 4 P)
The term Analog Camera should refer to non-digital electronic cameras, which also have no film, such as the Olympus VC-100 still camera and most older video/TV cameras - not, as is almost always mistakenly intended, to film cameras. Links "Anatomy of a digital camera" 2001 by Sally Wiener Grotta; digital photography tutorials at Sean T. McHugh ...