There are many ways in which you can use digital photography such as listed below:
Manual camera is the main setting on your camera and it lets you manually control shutter speed, aperture and ISO, specifically on DSLR camera’s as they capture their images digitally, as opposed to SLR which uses film made of plastic, gelatin and other material to record the image.
An automatic camera on DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) and its where the lens aperture or the shutter speed or both are automatically adjusted to the prevailing condition. Automatic is good because it takes care of everything for you. DSLR means that inside a camera is a mirror that reflects the light coming from the lens and sends it through up to the optical viewfinder, this allows photographers see what they are shooting.
Another form of digital equipment would be the use of your smartphone camera which is a hand-held device.
An old fashioned hand-hold device would be a plate camera which is a large point and shoot format camera and are more defined by the type of film they already used rather than the cameras itself. ‘plate’ refers to the photographic that is used to take the image.
Medium format cameras traditionally is referred to the film format in still photography. it also refers to either the cameras adapted from medium-format film photography uses or to cameras making use of sensors larger than a 35 mm film frame.
Light- weight cameras offer a great image quality but lighter to carry, great for traveling.
Extreme sport cameras are simple but effective as and are able to withstand a lot of things which a normal camera couldn’t. An example would be a @GoPro which doesn’t need to be hand held and can be strapped onto your head, enabling you to concentrate on your sport/activity while also having it filmed.
Recording – This has two different kinds Standard definition (SD) and High Definition (HD)
In these two photos below we see visually the differences between SD and HD
Standard Definition (left photo) is a television system which uses resolution which isn’t has enhanced as HD.
High Definition (right photo) is much more detailed picture quality and is delivered a lot clearer than SD.
Introduction to Digital Photography 