Is an iphone considered a digital camera?

Is an iphone considered a digital camera? - 1

It's a smartphone, but can perform as a digital camera. If you're asking in regards to going someplace where digital cameras aren't allowed, then the answer would be yes, it would be considered a digital camera and not allowed.

It has a digital camera as one of it's features, among many other features.

Yes, it has a digital image sensor and a lens

This is the age of confusion. The number sign is now a hashtag. Friends, you don't need to know. People like when someone dies. Bruce is now a she. Yes. A phone is a camera. It's the easier answer. As with everything else, it's becoming too hard to explain why not.

Any photographic apparatus which uses an electronic sensor and digital storage of images is, in technical terms, a digital camera. From that perspective, every smartphone contains a digital camera (as well as the many other "phone" functions").

But from the point of view of "serious photography", where control is required over functions such as shutter speed, ISO sensitivity, aperture, focal length (zoom), focus on particular subject, physically large sensor (not just lots of Mps), then no phone camera, and most ordinary compact "digital cameras", are not serious cameras, though many are capable of delivering good image files in favourable conditions.

If you are about to start a course in photography at college, and have been asked to have a digital camera at the ready, then ask the college for more specific details. The course will want certain controls available in your camera, so the instructor in the course should make clear exactly what he or she wants.

In some respects. Unless this has changed since, when plugged into a Windows computer it would show up as such.

An iPhone - or any smartphone - has features. First and foremost, it is a phone… That happens to have a digital camera bolted on as a feature.

It is a smartphone with a digital camera function.

Cameras have photo or video recording as their primary function.

I'd say no. It really depends on what you want to shoot with it. These things are good for snaps and not much more - selfies and such that's about it. Serious photography - not.

I love these people that say smart phones are only good for snapshots and selfies. What a hoot. Go to Instagram and see the quality of work that is being done, and for whom. Sheesh, even the famous National Geographic has a great Instagram section.