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miniature camera

American  

noun

Photography.
  1. a small camera using film that is 35 millimeters wide or less.


miniature camera British  

noun

  1. a small camera using 35 millimetre film

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of miniature camera

First recorded in 1920–25


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A tube of lipstick hiding a miniature camera, issued to female K.G.B. spies during the 1970s.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

“Albums suck. Albums are just miniature camera rolls,” he says.

From The Verge ● Mar. 16, 2021

What's significant about this case is that it involved the early use of a fibre-optic miniature camera - which gave detectives a view into the cellar where the gunmen were holed up.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2015

The miniature camera attached to the end of the two long needles I’m clumsily manipulating doesn’t lie: I’m a lousy surgeon.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2013

Under cover of a rock and some dwarf birches, I crept ahead on hands and knees, with a miniature camera at the ready.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

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