camera roll

Phone image collection

A camera roll is the collection of photos and videos stored on a smartphone or tablet, named after the roll of film in traditional cameras.

The term persists even though digital devices don't use film: I scrolled through my camera roll looking for that screenshot.

Most phone interfaces now label this simply as "photos" or "gallery," but camera roll remains common in casual speech.

digital

photos

Recorded light images

album · screenshots · smartphone · cloud · backup · storage · library · media · sync · upload

memories

moments

Short spans of time

wedding · birthday · graduation · anniversary · childhood · family · friends · celebration · throwback · flashback

organization

folders

Paper organizers with pockets

tagging · search · filtering · duplicates · cleanup · archiving · categorizing · date · location · faces

Categories
Opposites
storage format

camera rollphoto album

Bound collection of snapshots

scrapbook · photo box · polaroids · slides · film roll

curation level

camera rollportfolio

Collected works or assets

selected works · photo album · exhibition · highlight reel · highlights reel

permanence and tangibility

camera rollmuseum collection

Institutional assemblage of artifacts

time capsule · disappearing messages

Family

camera, roll, cameras, bicameral, unicameral, rolls, rolled, rolling, roller

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G