camera

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. See optical instruments.

II

(Roget's IV) n. Kinds of cameras include: camera obscura, astrograph, camera lucida, camcorder, cinecamera, X-ray machine, image orthicon, photochronograph, photogrammeter, iconoscope, microcamera, photographic telescope, photomicroscope, photopitometer, photospectroscope, phototheodolite, cinematograph, photostat, spectrograph, spectroheliograph, spectrohelioscope; motion-picture, television, TV, minicam, press, movie, autofocus, point-and-shoot, flash, still, aerial reconnaissance, electron-diffraction, box, electric eye, 35-mm, stereo, zoom-lens, photomicrographic, Polaroid (trademark), Instamatic (trademark), Kodak (trademark), single-lens reflex, double-lens reflex, spectroscopic, three-dimensional, 3-D, telescopic camera.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

35mm, *Polaroid, video camera, camcorder, *Brownie, *Kodak, *Nikon.

WORD FIND

• flash receptacle: hot shoe

• focusing system: range finder, viewfinder

• lens for shooting tiny objects: macro lens

• lens producing haze or color effect: filter

• lightmeasuring device: light meter, exposure meter, photometer

• light producer: flash

• long-distance lens: telephoto lens, zoom lens

• opening, amount of: aperture

• opens and closes when shot is taken: shutter

• stand: tripod, highhat

• wide field of view lens: wide-angle lens, fisheye, bugeye

see photography