camera
(kæmrə )
Word forms: cameras
1. countable noun A2
A camera is a piece of equipment that is used for taking photographs, making films, or producing television pictures. Many cameras are now included as part of other digital devices such as phones and tablets.
Her gran lent her a camera for a school trip to Venice and Egypt.
...a video camera.
They were caught speeding by hidden cameras.
2. on camera phrase B2
If someone or something is on camera, they are being filmed.
Fay was so impressive on camera that a special part was written in for her.
Just about anything could happen and we'll be there to catch it on camera when it does.
3. off camera phrase B2
If you do something or if something happens off camera, you do it or it happens when not being filmed.
They were anything but friendly off-camera, refusing even to take the same lift.
...off-camera interviews.
4. in camera phrase
If a trial is held in camera, the public and the press are not allowed to attend. [formal]
This morning's appeal was held in camera.
They were sentenced by a military tribunal sitting in camera.
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Collocations:
camera clicks camera crane camera equipment camera feed camera follows camera footage camera pans camera position camera recording camera records camera roll camera screen camera sensor camera shutter camera strap camera surveillance camera tracks camera tripod camera viewfinder camera zooms catch on camera closed-circuit camera disposable camera hand-held camera helmet camera hidden camera high-resolution camera high-speed camera infrared camera install a camera live camera point a camera red-light camera remote camera underwater camera
Simply lie flat on your back and bask in the sunshine - but before the camera clicks, don't forget to bend one knee.
The Sun
He hears cellphones more and camera clicks.
Times, Sunday Times
The ease of their exchanges in the post-qualifying press conference, each one accompanied by a frenzy of camera clicks, spoke of two young men happy in each other's company.
Times, Sunday Times
First a mobile phone, then a car alarm, a quick chorus of camera clicks, then back to its favourite ring tone.
Times, Sunday Times
A camera clicks and his story unfolds.
Times, Sunday Times
His 'gigantics', using football pitches and beaches as canvases, which were then shown with the aid of a camera crane, were particular favourites of his.
Times, Sunday Times
The dangers of these stunts were plain to see as one of the motorbike riders stopped too late and hit a camera crane.
The Sun
The crane operator sets up and operates the camera crane so that the camera arrives at the right spot.
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The flooring over the water tank proved unreliable for heavy camera crane dolly and normal television cameras tracking and pan movements and the tank was removed in 1959.
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Television cameras craned over the crowd.
Times, Sunday Times
Opening cabinets, returning various bottles of chemicals, dusting powders, crime lights, camera equipment, her hands nervous and awkward.
Times, Sunday Times
What the trike costs, the specs of camera equipment and the frequency of the snaps it takes are all deemed too 'commercially sensitive' to reveal.
Times, Sunday Times
He will be sentenced later but was told he faces jail and was banned from owning camera equipment.
The Sun
Police and local authorities are expected to save money by rotating expensive camera equipment among several camera housings.
Times, Sunday Times
It costs 65,000 to put a van on the road installed with the latest camera equipment.
Times, Sunday Times
Some had a security weakness which would let a hacker take control of the camera feed.
The Sun
Flick the indicators to turn left or right and a camera feed showing your blind spot fills the driver's binnacle.
The Sun
Officers using power torches direct the beams at the crafts, which are navigated via a live camera feed.
The Sun
We didn't yet have a camera feed from the opposite side of the building where the plane had struck.
The Sun
The app takes a camera feed from the incubator and transmits it to a smartphone.
Times, Sunday Times
The camera follows as the people from the party head up to the roof of the building to get a better look.
Times, Sunday Times
The partygoers panic, and the camera follows as they rush down to the street.
Times, Sunday Times
The camera follows him till he plops into the water and disappears.
Times, Sunday Times
The camera follows the macaw throughout its daily routine and demonstrates how it manages to protect itself against natural predators.
Globe and Mail
The camera follows the three characters from a certain distance, gently moving around their bodies, to allow a complete look at the scene.
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The two suspects, identified from security camera footage, had confessed to the crime, reports said.
Times, Sunday Times
Police in the case are examining security camera footage and forensic evidence.
Mail and Guardian
The hidden camera footage showed this same scenario played out about six times.
ST
After realising they were missing she contacted the police, who studied security camera footage.
Times, Sunday Times
Camera footage has been gathered from some people trapped in their homes as the flood water rose around them.
The Sun
A closed-circuit television camera panned the car before the gates were electronically opened to admit them.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Philpott looked at the monitor on the desk as a closed-circuit television camera panned the figure standing in the corridor.
CODE BREAKER
The camera panned to a crowd of huddled men playing dominoes around a table.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The player has some control over the character's pose in the photo, as well as the camera position and the photo's frame and background.
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Changing the focal length only while keeping the same camera position doesn't affect perspective but the camera angle of view only.
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Because view cameras are rather difficult to set up and focus, the photographer must seek the best camera position, perspective, etc. before exposing.
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He was seated in a prominent camera position and his mohawk unexpectedly became an iconic image of the landing.
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The broadcast production will also have a mid-wicket camera position for live running between wickets.
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This technique uses a laser to excite dyes added to the sample, with a camera recording the fluorescence produced.
Times, Sunday Times
And then, with a camera recording the moment for posterity, at the stroke of ten o'clock they took a collective deep breath and pressed the button.
Times, Sunday Times
The phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera recording still and video images.
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A home video camera recording taken from about a block away showed the house enveloped in flames as the first fire trucks could be heard arriving.
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This was no figment of the imagination because camera recordings made by many observers in many different parts of the world all caught the same phenomenon.
Times, Sunday Times
The camera records all traffic approaching the rider from behind.
Times, Sunday Times
The camera records the eye being tracked while the scene camera records the environment being observed by user.
Times, Sunday Times
The police body camera records him saying that he would have moved away if he had been given a warning that he would be arrested.
Times,Sunday Times
Camera records are sometimes wiped.
Times, Sunday Times
One camera records the performance in a straightforward, documentary way, while the other camera seems to be at rest, or catching the action around the edges.
Globe and Mail
In other cases they said their entire camera roll had been sent to their acquaintances.
Times, Sunday Times
Precision speed control was used to fit the entirety of the song onto the camera roll.
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Keep the camera rolling for all the spills and tumbles for a hilarious piece of footage.
The Sun
I had a huge breakdown on set while they kept the cameras rolling.
Times, Sunday Times
But as the cameras rolled, an immense battle followed.
Times, Sunday Times
All the photos just looked like white discs on the camera screen.
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The heat showed up as bright white spots on the camera screen.
Times, Sunday Times
When in reverse, the backup camera screen features parking buttons which can be used to activate automated parking procedures.
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They can't see the fandom through the camera screen, so appreciated the affirmation of their work.
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The camera sensor provides 60 images per second with a resolution of 752x480 pixels.
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The team then bought a high-end observatory telescope costing around $20,000 and added a camera sensor ($2 million), delivering a sensor capable of 1m ground resolution.
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When this light strikes a perpendicular target such as film or a digital camera sensor, it forms a circle of light, the image circle.
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For example, some researchers have explored the advantages of users painting directly in the gradient domain, while others have proposed sampling a gradient directly from a camera sensor.
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Video laryngoscopes are specialized fiberoptic layngoscopes that use a digital video camera sensor to allow the operator to view the glottis and larynx on a video monitor.
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He once told photographers he could not understand why they needed 45 minutes when the camera shutter would click in a 100th of a second.
Times, Sunday Times
You can slide off the base to replace it with a camera shutter unit with a big battery inside.
The Sun
The walls are full of flashbulb moments, faces and bodies that stand still barely long enough to submit to the camera shutter, let alone the artist's brush.
Times, Sunday Times
The rules on copyright are, on the surface, simple: if you click the camera shutter you own the copyright and have control over the use of the pictures.
Times, Sunday Times
This stuff might be sparkly — might even be gorgeous — but it can be a disappointment once the camera shutter closes and the act of eating begins.
Times, Sunday Times
They sniff out explosives and go ahead of the troops with cameras strapped to their heads.
The Sun
Other pigeons were used on reconnaissance missions by having cameras strapped to their chests before being sent over enemy lines.
The Sun
Cameras strapped on to penguins have revealed how flying seabirds such as cormorants, shearwaters and terns follow them to share in their hunting spoils.
Times, Sunday Times
Should there be video cameras strapped to players' hands?
Times, Sunday Times
The camera surveillance comes after a rapid rise in cases of 'lollipop rage' outside schools.
Times, Sunday Times
The property, surrounded by a deer fence, comes with automated gates and full camera surveillance.
Times, Sunday Times
The authorities there have ordered that every public lavatory be fitted with 24-hour camera surveillance.
Times, Sunday Times
We also have the biggest camera surveillance network in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
The town, where the average home value approaches $1-million, plans to spend about $60,000 on the camera surveillance system.
Globe and Mail
The camera tracks her like a devoted puppy, feasting on her sleeping form and parted lips.
Times, Sunday Times
A camera tracks oncoming traffic and dims the necessary bulbs to prevent dazzling.
Times, Sunday Times
The camera tracks her closely, as close as possible to her viewpoint without cutting her out completely, approaching but never replacing her experience of the world.
The Times Literary Supplement
As he tells the sad story of his life, so the camera tracks in to a close-up.
Times, Sunday Times
Throughout the rest of the section, the camera tracks upward as the edifice grows ever taller.
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One couple even took a camera tripod deep into the surf, the better to capture the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
Bastion, the biggest, staggered under the weight of my flimsy camera tripod.
Times, Sunday Times
You put their new flatpack shed next to the microwave and the camera tripod.
Times, Sunday Times
She fights using a modified camera tripod she calls the tripod of justice.
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She plays a few tricks with a collapsible camera tripod.
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The window in the living room acts like a camera viewfinder, zeroing in on an ancient walnut tree in the back garden.
Times, Sunday Times
The camera-person rarely notices this during filming since his/her sense of motion matches the motion seen through the camera viewfinder.
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Experts fear that radiation from video camera viewfinders may have caused the tumours.
Times, Sunday Times
The camera zooms in on the claws.
Christianity Today
A camera zooms in on individual faces.
Times, Sunday Times
As the distraught widow confronts the village villain - her lips trembling, eyes wide with fear - the camera zooms in to catch every melodramatic detail.
Times, Sunday Times
The camera zooms in on a padlock that has been cut open with a bolt-cutter.
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As he leaves, the camera zooms towards the hole.
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He was caught on camera taking covert pictures.
The Sun
But as all of his getaways were caught on camera, we can relive them in this returning clip show.
The Sun
Instead, he was caught on camera walking alongside heads of state and government leaders across the world.
Times, Sunday Times
Not really a game — more of a harmless wheeze, ideally caught on camera.
Times, Sunday Times
And naturally, the romantic moment was caught on camera.
The Sun
A closed-circuit camera inside the incubator caught the exact moment the chick hatched.
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They also seized film from five closed-circuit cameras.
The Sun
His closed-circuit cameras provided footage that persuaded police to act.
Times, Sunday Times
Closed-circuit cameras have been positioned in clubland.
Times, Sunday Times
In 2003 closed-circuit cameras were installed in the building and parking lots to provide better security for students and staff.
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Her handiwork complete, she takes a disposable camera out of her handbag and tells me to strike a pose.
Globe and Mail
They ask him for his autograph, pull out a disposable camera, and pose for photos with him.
Globe and Mail
At the age of 15 she was expelled in front of the entire school for possessing a disposable camera - a crime of 'narcissism', she was told.
Times, Sunday Times
Before calling the police, he allegedly went to a nearby shop and bought a disposable camera with which he photographed the body, after re-arranging some items.
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He served a 60-day sentence for stealing a $10 disposable camera in spring 1990, and in the winter received a two-year prison term for stealing a $3 hat.
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To fulfil this aim, they worked to develop a light, silent, hand-held camera and a self-powered tape recorder.
Times, Sunday Times
Did we really need the shaky hand-held camera illustrating the car outside his office, or the other car following him?
Times, Sunday Times
And he will be responsible for filming all the action on a hand-held camera.
The Sun
Green replicates the juxtaposition of gritty naturalism — lots of dirt, urgency and hand-held camera — and gobsmacking fantasy that was so successful in the first film.
Times, Sunday Times
In four years' time documentary makers would dismantle it, throw out a third of it by weight, mount it on a handle and invent the hand-held camera.
Times, Sunday Times
One biker, however, has 'caught himself' speeding and doing dangerous stunts because he was wearing a helmet camera.
Times, Sunday Times
One of the parachutists filmed the incident on a helmet camera.
Times, Sunday Times
Extraordinary footage from his helmet camera shows the daredevil going into a face-first freefall before his parachute opens at the last moment.
The Sun
He collapsed into the lap of a sergeant who was filming it on a helmet camera.
The Sun
This year, the channel also helped to fund the creation of a helmet camera, which brings viewers closer to the action.
Times, Sunday Times
But a tiny hidden camera gave officers a perfect picture of the dozy thief.
The Sun (2008)
One US investigation involved a lampstand with a hidden camera that recorded plotters' hotel meetings on video.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In it, performers suffering from various disabilities play hidden camera stunts on unsuspecting members of the public.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
When an underwater search vehicle equipped with a high-resolution camera made several low passes over the debris, the images it collected revealed the ancient shipwreck.
Times, Sunday Times
Next, he placed a series of motion-triggered, high-resolution camera traps around the reserve, returning every morning to check the cameras for relevant images.
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High-resolution camera 'eyes' start by scanning each one to find corners.
The Sun
The drones can remain airborne for 24 hours at a time, their pilots swapping every four hours, as their high-resolution cameras scan the terrain below.
Times, Sunday Times
But mobile devices have high-resolution cameras that can turn them into scanners able to snap, clean up and store documents, allowing you to consign the originals to recycling.
Times, Sunday Times
A high-speed camera takes images of the stars at 20 frames per second.
Times, Sunday Times
The high-speed camera has been used to film television adverts.
Times, Sunday Times
Using a high-speed camera they recorded the motion on the surface of the drinks.
Times, Sunday Times
City streets were recreated, then tilted upright beneath a high-speed camera mounted on a scaffolding filming downwards.
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The system rapidly processes the video feeds by a high-speed camera and ball tracker.
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An infrared camera films the bats without disturbing them and the public can watch on a giant screen from May to October.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Two miles above, a Predator drone trained an infrared camera on him as he lay on his back and was joined by his wife and uncle.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Six days after the collapse, rescuers sent down an infrared camera which found what appeared to be eight survivors, one of whom waved at the camera.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It means that if councils want to install a camera, they must prove it will make the road safer - then pay for it themselves.
The Sun
After getting government permission, he asked a climber to install the camera near the nest - 120ft up - while the birds were on their annual migration.
The Sun
Organisations with big fleets of vehicles will be asked to install the cameras and gather data while driving.
Times, Sunday Times
I do wonder if deep down you had an inkling and that played a part in you installing the cameras.
The Sun
You'd think by now, couples who hear a bump in the night would move house rather than install some cameras.
The Sun
You can try on new shades via a live camera.
The Sun
I was shoved into one of these pens and put in front of a live camera.
Times, Sunday Times
Officers do not get access to live camera feeds and do not know the specific address of the footage they view, the company said.
Times, Sunday Times
Statistics, graphics, recorded video footage, live camera positions and more, really are at the fingertips of presenters, allowing them to illustrate their analysis in depth, clearly and easily.
Times, Sunday Times
Officers using power torches direct the beams at the crafts, which are navigated via a live camera feed.
The Sun
Rather than rubber-necking the diners' dishes, you pull out your mobile phone, point the camera at the building and instantly view its menu and reviews.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't point your camera at either of them when videotaping.
Christianity Today
Failing to get any aquatic film of interesting fish, they decided to point the camera at each other.
Times, Sunday Times
Point your camera at a cafe for example and it will layer the phone number, maybe even the menu, on to your screen.
The Sun
Point the camera at a bright star and focus until it looks sharp.
The Sun
The system for monitoring congestion pricing will be made separate from existing red-light camera systems.
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The red-light cameras caused controversy, though, even leading to some lawsuits.
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Studies have revealed mixed results of the effectiveness of red-light cameras.
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However, other studies have found that red-light cameras reduce accidents and citations.
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I photographed the giraffe with a remote camera attached to a boom on the ceiling.
Times, Sunday Times
As we came into land, we stood on the 'photo-spot' and had our picture taken by a remote camera - our faces adrenalin-crazed in the resulting snapshot.
The Times Literary Supplement
Because he photographed with remote camera, the results were dramatic as the cameras were so close to the rockets.
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Steel safety cables should be used to secure each part of the remote camera to a secure fixture.
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The footage was obtained using remote camera traps which are triggered by motion.
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Amazing footage from an underwater camera shows the outline of a long, slender 'serpent' slithering through the water from the left.
The Sun
On one occasion, he passed me the underwater camera and flippered down into the deep.
Times, Sunday Times
An underwater camera captures what happens next: a furious scrabbling of arms and legs that makes him roll over and float on his back, spluttering and crying, but alive.
Times, Sunday Times
All we saw of the beach was two presenters who would have been more comfortable in a studio and an underwater camera showing nothing moving.
Times, Sunday Times
I like to think there's an underwater camera graveyard, somewhere beneath a coral reef.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 照相机
Japanese: カメラ
- comfy bed
- comfy chair
- comfy couch
- comfy home
- comfy seat
- comfy shoes
- comfy sofa
- comic
- comic actor
- comical
- comical effect
- comically
- comic book
- comic character
- comic convention
- comic creation
- comic drama
- comic effect
- comic element
- comic fan
- comic genius
- comic hero
- comic interlude
- comic masterpiece
- comic novel