snap-shootern.
/ˈsnapʃuːtə/ 1. One who practises or is skilled in snap-shooting.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooter > [noun] > other types of shooter
Peter Gunner1615
pot-hunter1750
rifleman1809
snapshot1845
market-shooter1880
holder-on1881
potter1884
snap-shooter1887
kangaroo-shooter1902
plinker1943
rough-shooter1958
scattergunner1969
1887 Field 8 Jan. 41/1 I cannot but believe that our brilliant snap-shooters..are born, not made.
2. One who takes snapshot photographs; a camera suitable for this.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographer > [noun] > types in general
portraitist1857
street photographer1859
mugfaker1880
Kodaker1890
snap-shooter1890
snapshottist1891
snapshotter1899
telephotographer1899
snapper1910
documentarian1951
smudger1961
smudge1968
pictorialist1971
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
1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 200 It may become a ‘snap shooter’, by taking the cork out.
1896 J. Ashby-Sterry Tale of Thames ii [It] won't go down in these days of the universal kodak and perpetual snap-shooter.
1904 Car 10 240 (caption) Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.,..is reluctant to pose before a camera, but occasionally falls a victim to wily ‘snapshooters’.
1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon iv. 72 I had always taken a camera with me on my climbs, but had been little more than a holiday snapshooter.
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