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  • noun Plural form of minicam.

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Examples

  • He'd rather see a rhino stampede coming his way than a gaggle of minicams.

    Today, we're not talking about ... that guy 2008

  • I love that OLTL is still shooting with three big old-time cameras, and you don't have to worry about staying out of the way of people holding their little goddamn lights and weaving in and out of the scene with their minicams.

    Soap Veteran Kim Zimmer Joins One Life to Live 2010

  • Rumor has it that Cloverfield 2 script is based in the same idea developed for Aliens and Rec 2, with multiple points of view from minicams installed in soldiers helmets.

    Is Hollywood Going Alien Crazy? Will Aliens Become the New Vampires? | /Film 2009

  • The media swarms around the patrol car and the flashes from all the unblinking eyes of the DVC-Pro minicams explode in slow-mo like silent bombs.

    Barry Michael Cooper: Terrorist Without a Cause 2009

  • New technology-wireless mikes and minicams and 800 numbers-will allow Clinton to continue his voter-friendly "Donahue" imitation as a chief executive who can roam from the Oval Office to the local mall.

    And You Thought The Campaign Was Long 2008

  • Behind the remarkable scenes of mushrooming explosions in Baghdad, the breathless reports of the legions of "embedded" news correspondents armed with minicams, a secret war has been waged, sensed and hinted about, but never fully explained.

    The War Room 2007

  • "Today the science industry takes a giant step forward," he said, with minicams whirring around him.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

  • To edit and feed a story from Iraq, crews connect their minicams into laptop computers with a firewire cable, and then edit their pieces with software available at almost any computer supply store.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Journalists at war beat the DoD home with news 2003

  • As we did at the Democrat convention in Boston, we've given some small minicams, mini cameras, to four delegates to take us behind the scenes, get a flavor of what's going on.

    CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004 2004

  • So he stood there Wednesday, a befuddled team leader in the middle of a swarm of minicams, without a hit in two crucial days, wondering where the good times went.

    Big Frank in a world of hurt 2000

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