Though they often look like traditional film cameras, digital cameras take pictures electronically. The image is captured by charge-coupled devices (or CCDs, light-sensitive semiconductors) and generated as pixels, then stored as a file. After the...

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images on a light-sensitive sensor. Many compact digital still cameras can record sound and moving video as well as still photographs. In the Western...

Technology in Action Using digital camera technology you can take pictures which rival those produced by high quality film cameras. They are in fact, replacing the film cameras that have been used in many professional applications. The digital camera saves the photographic...

Filmless photography comes home I removed the lampshade from the lamp and placed it next to the TV. Any minute John Glenn would take off on an historic space flight, and I wanted to get a photo of the television screen when it...

For her 30th birthday, while she was still pregnant, Lindsay Nie received from Mom an album filled with her baby and childhood photos.She enjoyed the trip down memory lane _ recalling, for instance, the wooden slide she had in her room and the way she...