camera digital

"Digicam" redirects here. For the military camouflage method using micropatterns, see digital camourflage .

Front and back of canon Powershot A 95, a typical pocket-size digital camera

Hasselblad 503CW with Ixpress V96C digital back  an example of a professional digital camera system

A digital camera (or digicam) is a camera that takes video or still photographs  by recording images on an  electronic image sensor .Most cameras sold today are digital, and digital cameras are incorporated into many devices ranging from PDAs and mobile phones  (called camera phones ) to vehicles.
Digital and film cameras share an optical system, typically using a lens with a variable diaphragm  to focus light onto an image pickup device. The diaphragm and shutter admit the correct amount of light to the imager, just as with film but the image pickup device is electronic rather than chemical. However, unlike film cameras, digital cameras can display images on a screen immediately after being recorded, and store and delete images from memory. Many digital cameras can also record moving video with sound . Some digital cameras can crop and stitch  pictures and perform other elementary image editing