List of camera types
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- Camera, the general term:
- 360 camera (VR camera)
- 3D camcorder
- Action camera
- Animation camera
- Autofocus camera
- Backup camera
- Banquet camera
- Body camera
- Box camera
- Bridge camera
- Camcorder
- Camera phone
- Camera lucida
- Camera obscura
- Closed-circuit television camera (CCTV)
- Compact camera
- Compact System cameras
- Dashcam
- Digital camera
- Digital movie camera
- Digital single-lens reflex camera
- Disposable camera
- Document camera
- Event camera
- Field camera
- FireWire camera
- Folding camera
- Front-facing camera
- Gun camera
- Helmet camera
- High-speed camera
- Hidden camera (Spy camera)
- Imago camera
- Instant camera
- IP camera
- Keychain camera
- Large format camera
- Light-field camera
- Live-preview digital camera
- Medium format camera
- Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera
- Monorail camera
- Movie camera
- Multiplane camera
- Omnidirectional camera
- Onboard camera
- Pinhole camera
- Pinspeck camera
- Plate camera
- Pocket camera
- Pocket video camera
- Point-and-shoot camera
- Polaroid camera
- Police body camera
- Pool safety camera
- Press camera
- Process camera
- Professional video camera
- Rapatronic camera
- Rangefinder camera
- Red light camera
- Reflex camera
- Remote camera
- Rostrum camera
- Schmidt camera
- Security camera
- Single-lens reflex camera
- Stat camera
- Stereo camera (3D camera)
- Still camera
- Still video camera
- Streak camera
- Subminiature camera
- System camera
- Thermal imaging camera (firefighting)
- Thermographic camera
- Time-of-flight camera
- Toy camera
- Traffic camera
- Traffic enforcement camera
- Twin-lens reflex camera
- Video camera
- View camera
- Webcam
- Wright camera
- Zenith camera
- Zoom-lens reflex camera
- The term camera is also used, for devices producing images or image sequences from measurements of the physical world, or when the image formation cannot be described as photographic:
- Acoustic camera which makes sound visible in three dimensions
- Gamma camera
- Magnetic resonance imaging which produce images showing, internal structure of different parts of a patient's body.
- Rangefinder camera which produce images of the distance to each point in the scene.
- Ultrasonography uses ultrasonic cameras that produce images of the absorption of ultra-sonic energy.
- Virtual camera, in computing and gaming.