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single-lens reflex

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noun

  1. See reflex camera

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While they talked, Roberts pulled out a single-lens reflex Mamiya camera, one of those boxy numbers that have faded into nostalgia.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2021

Tillmans bought his first camera, a Contax single-lens reflex, when he was twenty and living in Hamburg.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2018

A bridge camera is one that fills the gap between a basic point-and-shoot device and a single-lens reflex camera.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2018

He was wearing multiple press identification cards and carried a Canon digital single-lens reflex camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2017

They applied for and won a Qwest Teachers and Technology Grant, which they used to buy 15 digital single-lens reflex cameras.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2011

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