automatic camera

British  

noun

1. a camera in which the lens aperture or the shutter speed or both are automatically adjusted to the prevailing conditions

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Example Sentences

As a child she kept a poster of the Earth rising above the lunar surface – Bill Anders' famous Earthrise picture from Apollo 8 – on her bedroom wall, and decided she wanted to become an astronaut when she learnt that a human, not an automatic camera, had squeezed the shutter.

From BBC

At a press conference, Bondi explained that the missing minute was the result of an automatic camera reset.

From Slate

They then used an automatic camera to record the foraging behavior of field mice in different forest environments and in different seasons.

From Science Daily

He had been involved in a police pursuit after the car he was driving was flagged on an automatic camera system indicating it had been involved in an offence.

From BBC

The new system, Land said, is a compact, automatic camera capable of making a succession of color photographs virtually as fast as the photographer can push the button.

From Scientific American