It’s now the second decade of the 21st century, so stop using the phrase “digital camera.” It’s redundant. All cameras are digital, film is the exception. Feel free to use the term “film camera” when talking about a camera that uses film. Otherwise it’s just “camera.” No more “DSLR” either.
Cameras no longer have motor drives. Nothing is being driven or pulled through a digital camera.
Cameras no longer shoot “frames per second” because there are no more frames, just exposures.
Digital cameras do not videotape, tape or film anything because there’s no videotape or film in a digital camera. Digital cameras simply record video.
Long ago, motion picture cameras produced “motion pictures” which were commonly nicknamed “movies.” An amateur motion picture camera was called a “movie camera” and it also produced movies.
Since the 1950s, it’s been possible to record moving pictures onto magnetic tape which was called “videotape.” Since the 1980s, a movie camera that used videotape was called a “video camera” and the product it produced was called a “video.”
The moving pictures from today’s digital cameras are neither a “movie” nor a “video.” Digital cameras don’t use film or videotape but instead they use flash memory. Throughout photo history, the end product has been named after the medium or the technology used.
So to keep up with the changing times, a new, modern name is required for digital moving pictures.
We could use the name “memory” because of the flash memory used and it would be quite appropriate. For example, someone could say, “Go to my web site and watch some of the memories I made last week.”
Or how about “flashie” or “pixie”? :-)
