a piece of equipment for taking photographs, moving pictures or television pictures:
Just point the camera and press the button. * Cameras started clicking as soon as she stepped out of the car. * a TV / video camera * a camera crew
IDIOMS
in camera (law) in a judge's private room, without the press or the public being present:
The trial was held in camera.
on camera being filmed or shown on television:
Are you prepared to tell your story on camera?
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