The World Looks Great with Digital Cameras

The simplest definition of a digital camera, or digicam - as it is sometimes called, is a type of camera that is used to take still, video photographs or even both, by a digital technique of recording the images through an electronic image sensor or lens. When the camera went digital, the way we visualize the world changed dramatically.

It is no wonder that the traditional camera is an endangered device. Photographers, both amateur and professional, have realized the infinite capabilities of a digicam. For one, a digital camera can actually display an image immediately after recording it and thereby let a photographer decide on the quality of a shot when he or she still has the opportunity for a retake. If the image is not up to the desired standard, it can be discarded without having to go back to the studio. If the image is accepted, a photographer can simply store it and a thousand others in addition to data in the compact memory devices incorporated in digital cameras. Further, there's an ability to record sound to accompany both video and still photographs.

That is not all. Digital cameras are ultra-compact devices that can be carried inconspicuously everywhere one goes. Smaller formats of a digital camera are now incorporated in most streets, vehicles, roads, PDAs and cell phones. Indeed, digital camera technology has given the world eyes to see everything at all times. Specialized cameras like spy cameras, telescopic cameras among others are armed with the same technology.

Better images can be captured and transmitted onwards within seconds; streets are safer, traffic easily coordinated and great moments easily recorded all because we now have digital cameras and their derivative technology. The world really looks great through the digital lens.

Mel C did it again!