cable release

American  

noun

Photography.

1. a device consisting of a flexible wire that is pressed at one end to trip a shutter mechanism on a camera.

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cable release British  

noun

1. a short length of flexible cable, used to operate the shutter of a camera without shaking it

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Etymology

Origin of cable release

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

After I changed, in a side room, he placed me in front of a big, somewhat old-fashioned-looking camera on a tripod, which he stood beside while holding a cable release.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2019

“I had the perfect diamond ring, and I pushed the cable release and nothing happened,” he said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 22, 2017

Besides their cameras, participants should bring a tripod, cable release or remote shutter control, and a flashlight.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2016

We both turn and look and that’s when I hit the cable release.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2014

It is equipped with our regular Planatograph lens, each one carefully tested, and the shutter is of the Kodak Ball Bearing type but supplied with bulb and tube instead of cable release.

From Premo Cameras 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company