shutter release

noun

Photography.

1. a button or similar device used to actuate a camera shutter.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shutter release¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

I attached my lens to a clamp to keep it still and used a remote shutter release.

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Touch is another of Sepuya’s main subjects, sometimes instructive or guiding, sometimes erotic, sometimes it’s the finger on the shutter release.

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The exhibition opens with a famous self-portrait of Kwame Brathwaite staring ahead at his subject, lips slightly parted in wonder, one hand holding the shutter release cable of his Rolleiflex camera.

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The picture was taken with a wide-angle lens with a remote shutter release, so as not to disturb the fox.

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Composing and capturing a scene through a viewfinder while pressing a shutter release is part of the essence of photography, and you can’t do that with a phone yet.

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