PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photographic camera mean? 

• PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA (noun)
  The noun PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA has 1 sense:

1. equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

camera; photographic camera

Hypernyms ("photographic camera" is a kind of...):

photographic equipment (equipment used by a photographer)

Meronyms (parts of "photographic camera"):

sprocket (roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through)

aperture (a device that controls amount of light admitted)

shutter (a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure)

cartridge; magazine (a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required)

hood; lens hood (a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera)

finder; view finder; viewfinder (optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest)

diaphragm; stop (a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens)

delayed action (a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture)

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photographic camera"):

box camera; box Kodak (a simple camera shaped like a rectangular box)

candid camera (a miniature camera with a fast lens)

digital camera (a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for later reproduction)

flash camera (a camera with a photoflash attachment)

cine-camera; motion-picture camera; movie camera (a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession)

point-and-shoot camera (a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus)

Polaroid camera; Polaroid Land camera (a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds)

portrait camera (a camera with a portrait lens)

reflex camera (camera that allows the photographer to view and focus the exact scene being photographed)