camera eye
Detached visual perspective
Camera eye describes a way of seeing or recording with the detachment and precision of a camera—capturing details without emotional interpretation or selective memory.
A writer with a camera eye renders scenes in sharp, objective detail: His camera eye caught every crack in the pavement, every flicker of expression.
The term also appears in discussions of photographic or cinematic memory, and in baseball for a batter's exceptional ability to judge pitches.
- lensLight-focusing curved glass
- viewfinderCamera's composition window
- depth of fieldZone of acceptable sharpness
- shutterHinged window covering
- focusConcentrated attention point
aperture · wide angle · retina · vision · optic · snapshot · gaze · cinematic · film noir · shot · frame · iris · pupil · perception · capture · zoom · image · film
- narrative voicefirst person, third person, POV, point of view, narrator
camera eyestream of consciousness
Narrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
camera, eye, cameras, bicameral, unicameral, eyes, eyed, eyeing, eyeless