point and shoot
Example Sentences
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Sure, someone might have taken a couple snapshots of the table — maybe your aunt with her point-and-shoot, the flash so bright it washed out the ham.
From Salon
The point-and-shoot digital camera is one of the most prized rediscovered technologies.
I took an old point-and-shoot digital camera to New York Fashion Week because, haven’t you heard?
From Los Angeles Times
Using cheap point-and-shoot cameras — they were unobtrusive and produced grainy shots that, to her, represented the messiness of life — Ms. van Manen captured intimate images of daily life in China, post-Soviet Russia and coal miners in Kentucky.
From New York Times
Bertien van Manen, a Dutch photographer who used point-and-shoot cameras to capture intimate images of daily life in China’s big cities and remote villages, the dismal apartments and alleyways of post-Soviet Russia and coal miners in Kentucky, died on May 26 in Amsterdam.
From New York Times
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