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

Passengers struggled to open the window, he said, until he found the cable release.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022

Let’s start with a good camera, a cable release and a sturdy tripod.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2022

All the early pictures were taken, square format, with his father’s nineteen-forties Rolleiflex; as in the photos from the Met in 1980, you can usually see the cable release in the photographer’s fist.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2019

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

From Washington Times • Jul. 22, 2017

The shutter is the Kodak Ball Bearing with cable release, which works not only for bulb and time exposures, but has variable indicated speeds of 1/25, 1/50 and 1/100 second.

From Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company