Ruling on taking pictures with digital cameras and video cameras
Question

                What is the ruling on taking pictures with a digital camera? What is the ruling on taking pictures with a video camera?
Praise be to Allah.
    
    Taking pictures with a digital camera is of two types: 

    1.
    
    When the picture is a photograph or still picture. This is 
    not permissible unless the aim is to use the picture in a permissible 
    manner, such as pictures that are needed in order to prove identity or for a 
    passport or driver’s license, or posting pictures of criminals so that they 
    will be known, and other valid purposes.

    It is 
    not permissible to take pictures just for the purpose of memory and keeping 
    the picture, as many people do. 

    See 
    also the answer to question no. 10326 

    2.
    
    When the picture that is taken with the digital camera is a 
    moving image, as in the case of video clips. There is nothing wrong with 
    this, and it does not come under the prohibition.

    But 
    it is not permissible to take pictures of anything that will help in sin or 
    be a source of temptation, such as pictures of adorned women or places of 
    evildoing, or places of bid‘ah and shirk by way of venerating them and 
    telling people about them. 

    See 
    also the answer to question no. 10326 

    And 
    Allah knows best.