Digital Camera

Digital Camera is a highly modernized electronic device that is being used to capture and store images in a digital format. The compact digital cameras of recent times are used to serve different types of functions. Those cameras are in fact typically multi functional, with different recording devices. It can be used for serving both the audio and visual purpose.

Digital Camera is generally divided in the following categories

Video cameras

Live-preview digital cameras

Compact digital cameras, digicams

Bridge digital camera

Digital single lens reflex cameras

Digital cameras require memory in order to store data. Those variety of storage media include

Onboard flash memory

Floppy disks

Video Floppy

CD single or DVD

PC Card hard drives

Thermal printer

Digital cameras need high power for being operated properly and as with the course of time the camera is becoming smaller in size, the need to develop a small battery is arriving in order to be fitted in the camera. There are mainly two divisions exist in the types of batteries that are being used by digital cameras

Off-the-shelf

Proprietary

Common formats for digital camera images are generally the Joint Photography Experts Group standard and Tagged Image File Format.