viewfinder

[ vyoo-fahyn-der ]

noun

, Photography.

1. finder ( def 2b ).

viewfinder

/ ˈvjuːˌfaɪndə /

noun

1. a device on a camera, consisting of a lens system and sometimes a ground-glass screen, enabling the user to see what will be included in his photograph Sometimes shortened tofinder

Word History and Origins

Origin of viewfinder¹

First recorded in 1890–95; view + finder

Example Sentences

There’s no viewfinder or way to preview your shots, so you need to “frame” your shots with your head and keep in mind that the camera’s field of view is different from yours.

From Popular-Science

The glasses will become a perpetual viewfinder, emphasizing each wearer’s perspective over the experience of being in any group.

From MIT Technology Review

That’s because a viewfinder focuses your attention and your gaze, allowing you to take in the full frame of what the camera will capture.

From Outside Online

That attached to a body, which enclosed the viewfinder and mirror box that let you see what you were shooting.

From Popular-Science

Your viewfinder is the screen on the back of the camera, which shows you a live feed directly from the sensor.

From Popular-Science

Filming it through his own camera's viewfinder kept him steady: it was a necessary mediating tool.

From The Daily Beast

The viewfinder could be popped off so I could hold it low and compose a photo at waist level if the situation got bad.

From The Daily Beast

Although I had been looking thru my cameras viewfinder I had not shot a frame.

From The Daily Beast

In 1933, Ben Shahn loaned Walker Evans a right-angle viewfinder, which he took on assignment to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From The Daily Beast

No, sir; I was just taking a picture of him, and the presidential party in the car come through my viewfinder and my camera.

From Project Gutenberg

He kept low and moved slow, keeping the viewfinder up so that he could keep the melee in shot.

From Project Gutenberg

"Not if you let me make it right away," Pete replied after a squint or two through the viewfinder.

From Project Gutenberg