摄像头

English translation: camera

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Chinese term or phrase:摄像头
English translation:camera
Entered by: Inga Jakobi

10:24 Sep 30, 2006
Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / digital photography
Chinese term or phrase: 摄像头
调节摄像头方向
Inga Jakobi
Germany
Local time: 01:15
camera
Explanation:
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Shang
China
Local time: 07:15
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谢谢!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2camera
Shang
4 +1fyi
Hualong Jiang
4 +1IMHO - simply just say "LENS"
Philip Tang
4camcorder or video camera
chenarth
3fyi
Xu Dongjun
2(web) camera
Roddy Stegemann


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
camera


Explanation:
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Shang
China
Local time: 07:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Chinese
PRO pts in category: 101
Grading comment
谢谢!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  pkchan
3 hrs
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agree  licullen
5 hrs
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
fyi


Explanation:
"Web Cam" is the camera usually connected to a personal computer for video chat, e.g. on MSN

just one of the possibilities, fyi :-)

Xu Dongjun
China
Local time: 07:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 28
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
fyi


Explanation:
PC camera

sometimes you can add USB

Hualong Jiang
China
Local time: 07:15
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese

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agree  Jianming Sun
1 hr
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
(web) camera


Explanation:
The phrase 摄像 means "take a picture". By adding the suffix 頭 (繁體)头(简体)the verb phrase becomes a noun.


Roddy Stegemann
United States
Local time: 16:15
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
camcorder or video camera


Explanation:
It's not specified from your context that this is a pc camera so a more general term like video camera or camcorder should work better. You can say "lens of the camcorder" if you really want to emphasize the "头" part.

chenarth
Local time: 19:15
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
IMHO - simply just say "LENS"


Explanation:
IMHO - I think you can simply call it "lens" without indicating the kind of camera, because you must have mentioned the type of camera in your previous translation before coming to this!

Philip Tang
China
Local time: 07:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 40

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agree  billychang
4 days
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