Many clients are more acquainted with digital compacts, since these models have flooded the marketplace. Like cell phones, it is tough to walk down the road nowadays without seeing somebody snapping a photo. Digital SLR cameras are even less common, and up till 2005 were truly only utilised by professional photographers.

A rangefinder camera is a camera befit with a rangefinder: a range-finding focusing mechanism permitting the snapper to determine the topic distance and take photos that are in sharpened focus. Most sorts of rangefinder show 2 pictures of the same subject, one of which moves when a calibrated wheel is turned; when the 2 photographs coincide and fuse into one, the distance can be read off the wheel.

Compact digital cameras are built to be little and transportable and are especially appropriate for casual and "snapshot" use, thus are also called point-and-shoot camera. The tiniest, generally less than 20 mm thick, are described as subcompacts or ultra-compacts.

Bridge are top-end digicams that physically and ergonomically look like DSLRs and share with them some sophisticated features, but share with compacts the utilization of a fixed lens and a tiny sensor. Like compacts, most use live preview to border the image.