From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
digital camera
n 1: a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for
later reproduction
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :
digital camera
A camera that captures and stores still
images as digital data instead of on photographic film.
The first digital cameras became available in the early
1990s[?].
[Which and when was the first?]
(2000-08-10)