View synonyms for viewfinder

viewfinder

[ vyoo-fahyn-der ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Photography.

viewfinder

/ ˈvjuːˌfaɪndə /

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

First recorded in 1890–95; view + finder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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