noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a camera crew
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a BBC camera crew
a film camera
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The company produces digital film cameras.
a movie camera
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Do you know how to operate a movie camera?
a security camera
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A car park security camera captured the attack.
a speed camera (= designed to photograph vehicles going too fast )
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Most GPS systems will warn you when there are speed cameras.
compact camera
digital camera
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a digital camera
speed camera
video camera
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
digital
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It's solid, well-built and looks more like a conventional film camera than the other digital cameras featured in this test.
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The new QuickTake 200 is a digital camera that records photographs in computer memory.
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Digicam buying advice With digital cameras improving all the time, take some advice before buying.
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High-tech digital cameras are used extensively in astronomy to capture dim light from distant galaxies.
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This week, a new range of digital speed cameras were introduced that can trap up to three vehicles per second.
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On the down side, affordable digital cameras have limited memory.
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I recently made one of the best investments with my digital camera .
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You also can use a digital camera , which records pictures electronically and uploads them straight to your computer without using film.
video
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One of their captors filmed the shootings with a video camera .
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Police spoke of a benign new law enforcement tactic no more intrusive than a video camera at a convenience store.
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Covert video cameras and hand-held laser devices will be among the equipment used at weekends, they warn.
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The judge already has decided to ban from the courtroom not only video cameras but print photographers working for newspapers and magazines.
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A simple monochrome digital video camera is fitted to the hoe and trained on the crop just in front of the machine.
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But the real thrill for some riders is the chance to perform for the video camera .
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He said he would suggest that additional equipment such as video cameras and motion sensors be installed inside substations.
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Nixon recommends practicing before a video camera .
■ NOUN
angle
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This creates a rather spooky atmosphere and because of the many camera angles gives the impression that you are being watched.
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A low camera angle can make a slight anchor look imposing.
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Some of the pictures have silly camera angles because Oliver was fooling around.
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The courts and arena settings are beautiful, with smooth camera angles and timely commentary.
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We shall never know because the obtuse camera angle , from midwicket, provided insufficient evidence.
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Filmgoers, unfortunately, are subjected to the unnecessary trauma of seeing the brutal crime depicted from arty camera angles .
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The discs accommodate eight language tracks, 32 subtitle tracks and provisions for alternate endings and multiple camera angles .
crew
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It is full of camera crews .
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The whir of the camera crews set off a media stampede.
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Mrs Allan used her own funds to hire local divers and a submersible camera crew at a cost of £500 per day.
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The camera crews were desperate for a shot, and the reporters needed a quote.
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But when a camera crew arrived at the rectory, they got a hostile reception.
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The way camera crews staked out the hospital, you would have thought that Jackson himself was giving birth.
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I was the very last in the row, along with my film camera crew .
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That is, until camera crews on the tarmac turned their lenses to them.
lens
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Hilliard's cibachrome shows a woman with her head turned away from the camera lens .
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The camera lens , of course, has its own inherent limitations.
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On a purely practical basis, the paintings in this instance work better than the camera lens .
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He had a momentary glimpse of himself from above, as if through a camera lens .
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Indifferently magnificent, it sneered back at my eager camera lens , which could only fit in a pitiful few floors.
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Readers interested in the deployment of experimental camera lenses and the like may get the most out of what LoBrutto offers.
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I can gaze seductively into a camera lens and give you that look of pure lust and desire.
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In either event, the script is projected on to a piece of glass located directly over the camera lenses .
security
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He had seen the replay from the Security cameras and witnessed the fast, flashing deadliness of her.
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Several doors had been propped open with garbage cans, and footage from the security cameras was missing.
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And there is speculation that crucial evidence may also be gleaned from a security camera in operation close to the scene.
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Prosecutors never showed jurors the pictures taken of the suspect by a bank security camera , saying they were too fuzzy.
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This series of photographs was taken by a security camera at the Leeds Building Society.
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Door buzzers and security cameras , rusty from 17 months' of disuse, are ringing and clicking again at bars.
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The roster, till rolls and security cameras were examined in Thresher's own internal investigation.
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The pictures were captured by the city centre security cameras installed in Gloucester earlier this year.
television
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Outside Number 10 itself there was a solitary television camera crew.
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The civil trial provided a more subdued sequel, since Fujisaki refused to allow television cameras into his courtroom.
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He looked for television cameras - that must be the answer - it was being televised - people had dressed up.
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However, additional seating was created when the various Atlanta venues were redesigned to accommodate television cameras and other equipment.
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The tram carried a mobile generator for the power and provided a stable platform for the television cameras .
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The lifeblood of Sarajevo will drain away, the television cameras will go home and Bosnia will be forgotten in the West.
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Back then, Gingrich seemed to be everywhere, or at least everywhere there were television cameras and microphones.
■ VERB
allow
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Or, must some bridging material be built in to allow cameras or cast time to get to the next set?
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The civil trial provided a more subdued sequel, since Fujisaki refused to allow television cameras into his courtroom.
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Is this speech long enough on one camera to allow another camera time to switch lenses for a medium shot?
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Charles bitterly regretted having allowed the cameras in.
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A track is laid to allow the camera to move smoothly, then they go for a take.
bring
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The bride and groom pose for photographs to be taken by the official photographer and relatives who have brought their cameras .
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Cruz tells you that, you bring in cameras , tapes, lights.
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He did this by bringing a camera up to his face, through which he could nevertheless still see the tiger's actions.
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In all my years in the Civil Serviceno one has ever brought a camera into the office and started taking snapshots!
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Gimmelmann wished he had brought his camera to have captured the transformation.
buy
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With other systems you can buy a camera which will plug into a videocassette recorder you already have.
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In the future, the base plans to buy a digital camera .
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Digicam buying advice With digital cameras improving all the time, take some advice before buying.
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Then came the day that bought a video camera and filmed me ironing.
carry
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Despite carrying only a camera and an apple, I soon lag behind again.
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Jim Feng had his legs, and also carried his cameras .
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He carried his one camera , a twin-reflex Rolleiflex, the sort that is held against the chest, over his shoulder.
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A guy in khaki shorts was carrying a video camera .
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I had to carry the heavy camera which took pictures of the shape of the ground.
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First of all, one has to wade up to one's chest carrying camera and tripod.
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In recent years he had often carried cameras with any number of attachments.
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Some war torn place he carried his camera to.
catch
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And the police are catching them - on camera .
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He had been caught by the camera during an exuberant moment with his teammates, and he was sorry.
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They were caught on camera by amazed police officers in an unmarked car.
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Ulrika, who once dated Prince Edward, was caught on camera walking in the arms of the mystery man.
face
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She and Cameron, arms around each other, facing the camera and squinting into the sunlight.
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She is a girl of about 12, and she faces the camera with the calm composure of an innocent.
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Tina Brady is seen sitting facing the camera .
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That spat did little for her confidence as she faced a battery of cameras waiting outside Goldsmiths Hall.
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He is not a man for lofty speeches; faced by cameras , he routinely flubs his sentences.
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On this occasion he was in a jovial, even bantering mood, as I stood beside him facing the camera .
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But the diva emerges and she faces the camera crew.
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They faced the camera in their dungarees and jeans and cowboy-style holsters and knee-high boots.
hide
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The incriminating conversations that followed were recorded using hidden spy cameras .
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Two of its producers got jobs as food handlers for Food Lion and worked there wearing tiny hidden cameras and microphones.
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Behind every bend lurks a potential patrol, road-block or hidden camera .
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They may root frantically under the couch cushions or behind the drapes for a hidden camera .
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Madonna has even ordered bodyguards to check under people's kilts for hidden cameras .
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I wonder if the guy who owns the house films what goes on there with hidden cameras .
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Should we have used hidden cameras to track crooked car repairmen?
hold
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Chemouil's two-day trial in October would normally have been held in camera .
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They hold the camera over your head and click.
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His trial is being held in camera , and his lawyers are not allowed to discuss the case.
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Sometimes she was directing others while some one held a Super-8 camera .
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Tom Pratt favours another form of carrier, made from alloy tube of square section, to hold his Mamiya Press camera .
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He held the camera chest-high and aimed.
look
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If the subject is looking directly at the camera , the head should generally be placed centrally in the frame.
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No one else looks at the camera .
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He looked for television cameras - that must be the answer - it was being televised - people had dressed up.
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Accompanying it is a photograph of three Chicanas looking away from the camera and talking to each other.
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One man just sat there in silence, looking at the camera , grinning and folding and refolding his six fivers.
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Failing to communicate anything helpful to Marcello, the little Umbrian angel looks straight at the camera , and at us.
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Because the children in his pictures are looking at the camera , they know that they are looking at the world.
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Both look past the camera into the distance.
record
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One other possibility is to have two cameras recording simultaneously on to two recorders.
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The new QuickTake 200 is a digital camera that records photographs in computer memory.
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The Victorians invested considerable faith in the power of the camera to record , classify amid witness.
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It will raise an antenna and run a cable from the truck to a camera to record pictures of the burning building.
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The husband of one of the club members had his camera handy to record the occasion of the Mayor's visit.
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Companies should arrive at each stop armed with press releases and cameras to record local functions.
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The cameras continued to record every panic-stricken moment.
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You also can use a digital camera , which records pictures electronically and uploads them straight to your computer without using film.
set
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In summer they set up a video camera on Berry Head near Torquay to show close-up views of cliff-dwelling birds.
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That day, I set the camera on the tripod to take a long exposure.
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The father had hired Hutchison and her husband, John, to set up tiny cameras with pinhole lenses in his house.
smile
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It was actually of two men smiling into the camera against a chunky city skyline.
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He likes me to smile at the camera , so twice I pulled shocking faces.
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Winning meant standing on a podium, smiling for cameras and posing for pictures.
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Sufficiently long gap between contractions for me to smile for the camera . 12.30 a.m.
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He is sitting in his wheelchair and smiling at the camera .
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The photo showed a young, happy woman smiling brightly towards the camera .
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In the photograph I am smiling hopefully at the camera .
turn
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Hilliard's cibachrome shows a woman with her head turned away from the camera lens.
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She is careful to turn away from the cameras that are catching the action for the local sports network.
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I turned our closed circuit cameras on to the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage.
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Neil turns to the camera and hits his forehead with the palm of his hand.
use
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This format uses an electronic camera that stores up to 50 still images on a tiny floppy disk.
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In the way that you use a camera , you can focus your mind either on positive or negative factors.
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Local authorities using video cameras determine their own controls.
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Koju never did learn to use that camera .
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He used the latest camera technology, and experimented with all the techniques that were available.
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You also can use a digital camera , which records pictures electronically and uploads them straight to your computer without using film.
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They used a thermal imaging camera which gives a picture like this of bodies on the ground.
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They used miniature cameras to photograph secret documents and shortwave radios to receive coded messages from their spy masters, prosecutors said.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Few illustrations survive of the interiors of funeral furnishing establishments prior to the introduction of the camera .
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Here was proof, it was said, that the camera was not merely a simple mechanism.
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Its cameras followed the candidates around on the campaign, showing unabridged speeches, press conferences, walkabouts.
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Mike climbed the steps without speaking, and unloaded his cameras and camera bag on a mat.
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Moments later as the Monsignor began to pass out the diplomas, flashbulbs popped and a few home movie cameras whirred.
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Smoke could be seen seeping in front of the television camera .
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The 33-year-old physicist lashed his camera to an ice-pick and took the photo by setting the timer.
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This is the pattern of the squid and octopus eye as well as of the artificial mechanical one built by man, the camera .