Digital SLR Cameras

Digital reflex cameras (D-SLR) are used, instead of with built-in lenses, with various exchangable lenses. The motif is aimed at through the finder and displayed only after the picture has been taken on the control monitor. Very few models pose the exception: They show the motif in form of a preview before the image is taken.

Digital Compact- or Search cameras

In Digital Compact- or Search Cameras with built in lenses the motiv is displayed on a control monitor at the back of the camera before the picture is taken. Some compact cameras allow for the motiv to be aimed at through an aditional finder.

Digital camera

A digital camera takes pictures without exposing a film, but works with a CCD-unit (charged coupled device), which converts light first into electrical signals and then into binary data. This data is then stored digitally on a storage device (f.E.; RAM, Flashcard). Digital cameras can be separated into two groups: compact cameras and hybrids like the bridgecameras.