digital camera

n. camera that captures a digital image without film and storing it to be reproduced later on

A digital camera is an electronic device used to capture and store photographs digitally, instead of using photographic film like conventional cameras, or recording images in an analog format to magnetic tape like many video cameras. Modern compact digital cameras are typically multifunctional, with some devices capable of recording sound and/or video as well as photographs. In the Western market, digital cameras now outsell their 35 mm film counterparts.
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<graphics, hardware> A camera that captures and stores still images as digital data instead of on photographic film.
The first digital cameras became available in the early 1990s[?].
[Which and when was the first?]
(2000-08-10)

Noun
1. a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for later reproduction
(hypernym) camera, photographic camera
(hyponym) webcam