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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as finder .

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Examples

  • The principal subject in the foreground is Teri Varnalı (whose name has appeared on this blog before), while yours truly is in the background behind an old (mid-1960s) Canon view-finder camera.

    Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009

  • [Later], I was at a Visionaire shoot, and kept looking through the view-finder and Lily (Cole) was playing with motion and light, and I said to Nick that I thought there was some really nice footage there, and could I edit it?

    Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Filmmaker Ruth Hogben Revamps the Fashion Video Spread ArtCulture 2010

  • [Later], I was at a Visionaire shoot, and kept looking through the view-finder and Lily (Cole) was playing with motion and light, and I said to Nick that I thought there was some really nice footage there, and could I edit it?

    Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Filmmaker Ruth Hogben Revamps the Fashion Video Spread ArtCulture 2010

  • [Later], I was at a Visionaire shoot, and kept looking through the view-finder and Lily (Cole) was playing with motion and light, and I said to Nick that I thought there was some really nice footage there, and could I edit it?

    Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Filmmaker Ruth Hogben Revamps the Fashion Video Spread ArtCulture 2010

  • [Later], I was at a Visionaire shoot, and kept looking through the view-finder and Lily (Cole) was playing with motion and light, and I said to Nick that I thought there was some really nice footage there, and could I edit it?

    Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Filmmaker Ruth Hogben Revamps the Fashion Video Spread ArtCulture 2010

  • But instead of foxes, the view-finder suddenly filled with the spectre of a child running towards him.

    Her Fearful Symmetry AUDREY NIFFENEGGER 2009

  • The principal subject in the foreground is Teri Varnalı (whose name has appeared on this blog before), while yours truly is in the background behind an old (mid-1960s) Canon view-finder camera.

    Chemists do it with clamps AYDIN 2009

  • "Okay Phil, we're rolling. . ." announces Ingo, eye to the view-finder, body now crouched behind the huge, high-tech camera.

    Archive 2009-06-02 philip j cunningham 2009

  • "Okay Phil, we're rolling. . ." announces Ingo, eye to the view-finder, body now crouched behind the huge, high-tech camera.

    FROM THE SQUARE TO THE PALACE philip j cunningham 2009

  • Later, when we were almost finished and everyone was coming back on the trail, I was taking pics of the kids and then I took a self portrait and looked at it on the view-finder and I said out loud, "What is that thing on my head?" and then I go, "Oh, my hair."

    a nice day WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008

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