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on camera

Variant of camera

camera definition

cam·era (kam′ər ə, kam′rə)

noun pl. cameras -·eras, camerae -·erae′ (-ər ē′)

a chamber; specif., the private office of a judge
camera obscura
Etymology: < camera obscura
a device for taking photographs, consisting essentially of a closed box containing a sensitized plate or film on which an image is formed when light enters the box through a lens or hole
TV that part of the transmitter that consists of a lens and a special cathode-ray tube containing a plate on which the image to be televised is projected for transformation into electrical signals

Etymology: L camera, vault < Gr kamara, vaulted chamber < IE base *kam-, to arch

camera Idioms

in camera

in privacy or secrecy

on (or off) camera

☆

Film, TV so positioned as to be within (or out of) the camera's field of view