单词 | minicam |
释义 | minicamn. 1. A small camera; spec. a camera using film with a width of 35mm or less. Cf. miniature n. 3e. Now rare.The term was used chiefly before cameras of this size became widely available. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > general types of box camera1828 daguerreotype1839 view camera1851 pistolgraph1859 pinhole camera1861 panoramic camera1862 pantoscopic camera1865 pistolograph1866 pantoscope1879 detective camera1881 filmograph1881 photographometera1884 photochronograph1887 snap-shooter1890 stand camera1890 tele-objective camera1891 film camera1893 magazine camera1893 panoram1893 telephoto1894 mutograph1897 tele-camera1899 telephote1903 press camera1912 reflex1922 candid camera1929 minicam1935 single-lens reflex1936 plate camera1937 magic eye1938 subminiature1947 miniature1952 all-sky camera1955 microfilmer1959 stereo-camera1959 streak camera1962 gallery camera1964 SLR1964 TLR1965 spy-camera1968 pinhole1976 multi-mode1981 digicam1989 point-and-shoot1991 1935 Washington Post 22 Sept. vii. 5/7 A miniature camera was the most appropriate choice... I went round to the nearest store and bought a minicam equipped with an f:2 lens. 1939 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Minicam, short for miniature camera. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xxv. 432 Their photographs, largely contributed by ‘minicam’ amateurs. 2. A small hand-held film or video camera, esp. one used for television. ΚΠ 1977 J. Monaco How to read Film App. 417 Minicam, a small, lightweight television camera which can be hand-held. 1978 J. Krantz Scruples i. 6 She reported, with the help of a faithful crew who had virtually grown minicams out of their shoulders. 1989 C. Hiaasen Skin Tight (1990) xxx. 326 There's a man with a minicam running all over the place. 1994 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. e5/1 A copy of ‘Jurassic Park’..filmed from the screen of a New York premiere by a Russian agent with a minicam. 3. U.S. A professional operator of a minicam. ΚΠ 1978 Washington Post 21 Nov. b1/5 I was a minicam between the pulled curtains at the window next to the piano. 1988 J. Hunter & A. Keteyian Catfish i. 10 The writers and minicams were eating it up, as well they should have. 1993 Sports Illustr. 15 Nov. 106/2 The Baltimore contingent that day included the mayor and the governor and about nine zillion Minicams and reporters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). minicamv. Originally U.S. transitive. To photograph or film with a minicam. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > photograph [verb (transitive)] > in specific manner to fire away1859 stereograph1860 flashlight1886 shoot1890 snap1890 Kodak1891 snapshot1898 mug1899 mutoscope1899 telephotograph1899 mutograph1908 photomaton1927 soft-focus1928 minicam1937 microfiche1975 pap1993 1937 Amer. Speech 12 236/2 A professor at the University of Wisconsin minicammed his students during an examination. 1983 Chem. Week (Nexis) 13 Apr. 5 NBC..gained about 15 seconds of prime-time news coverage by minicamming a workman ripping down a piece of polyvinyl chloride conduit in the New York City subway. 1991 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 16 Oct. b4 Beth and Doug were minicammed in a real serious kiss on the scoreboard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1935v.1937 |
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