The phrase "a common camera" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of camera that is widely used or easily accessible to the general public.
Example: "For beginners, a common camera like a point-and-shoot is often recommended for its simplicity."
Alternatives: "a standard camera" or "a typical camera".
If you are just shooting a photo album, and until you can afford the more expensive camera, by all means, use a common digital camera.
The cigar-sized MSR MIOX water purifier requires only a pinch of salt and common camera batteries to operate, but neutralizes a host of potentially deadly contaminants such as VX nerve gas, E. coli, Giardia and anthrax.
Photographing an eclipse is possible with fairly common camera equipment.
In these three scenarios, we assume that two calibrated cameras in a parallel configuration setting and the same image plane (the most common camera configuration) are used to record an uneven bar structure (similar to the artistic gymnastics apparatus), as shown in Fig. 3 d. Figure 3 a c shows the front, side, and top view of the stereoscopic orthographic projection of the scene, respectively.
This experimental method measured the crack opening displacements (CODs) of the cruciform joint detail by a common digital camera, and utilized the acquired COD data to derive the SIF for the joint detail by a suggested least-squares procedure.
A common CCD camera was equipped with a specially designed filter to constitute a vision system, which was used to capture the weld pool and the keyhole images during plasma arc welding process.
These photographs were captured using a common digital camera by field engineers in construction projects (Golparvar-Fard et al. 2009a).
Nonetheless, the approach is not limited to this application and can also be used to calibrate a common 2-D camera to a laser scanner.
