Before getting to see how a digital camera works, lets begin by saying that a digital camera differs from a classical one primary through its storage capabilities. Imagine that using your old classic 35 mm camera you could make n pictures (for example 36) on a film before having to stop making pictures and change the film.
This inconvenient is no more present with digital cameras because you have so much space available that you could do several hundred pictures before having to empty your card and if this thing is annoying imagine a portable drive with so much space that you even forget the meaning of spaceless. Here is how a digital camera works.
Until now we concluded that the biggest difference between classical cameras and digital ones is available space but is this all? The answer is a simple NO; I suppose you heard many times the word mega pixel when speaking of digital camera, but what is it? A digital camera works on the basis of stimuli that an incorporated sensor receives.
In a digital camera the light excites a digital sensor which is a very small computer; this sensor is composed of millions of tiny sensors called pixel, a pixel means picture...