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noun Photography.
a device consisting of a flexible wire that is pressed at one end to trip a shutter mechanism on a camera.
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Origin of cable release

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby cable release

cablelaid, cable molding, cablephoto, cable railway, cable-ready, cable release, cable's length, cable-stayed bridge, cable-stitch, cablet, cable television
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How to use cable release in a sentence

  • The shutter is the regular Compound, but operated with cable release instead of bulb and tube.

    Premo Cameras, 1914.|Canadian Kodak Company

  • Shutter, compound with cable release, highest speed 1/300 second.

    Premo Cameras, 1914.|Canadian Kodak Company

  • Shutter, compound with cable release, highest speed 1/250 second.

    Premo Cameras, 1914.|Canadian Kodak Company

British Dictionary definitions for cable release

cable release
noun
a short length of flexible cable, used to operate the shutter of a camera without shaking it
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