digital camera

A Digital Camera is an electronic camera.
Traditional cameras were mechanical devices that literally had a shutter that physically opened and shut to expose light on a piece of light sensitive film. Once the film was exposed to the light it needed to be developed in a bath of chemicals.
Digital cameras have few moving parts and certainly no moving shutters because they are electronic. They do not need chemicals to process images nor do they need film to store images. All this is done digitally or electronically with your images created and stored as a series of digital bits called pixels (picture elements).
When products are ‘electronified’ there are often significant and unusual advantages. For example, with a digital camera, most have screens on their back that enable you to view the images as soon as you have taken them. This would have seemed like an impossible dream if you had suggested this to a photographer 50 years ago as they pointed their film loaded mechanical camera.