Author Topic: Collective noun for a group of cameras? (Apart from collection.) (Read 8032 times)

zapsnaps · « **on:** March 25, 2016, 09:30:18 AM »

I have a group of cameras, which is occasionally added to, (very) occasionally thinned out. A 'collection' makes it sound static and perhaps unused. It also has scholarly connotations, with which I am uncomfortable.

I buy what pleases, usually on looks or an amusing name (I have a Beirette and want to buy a Wirgin and a FOCA). Things are bought for fun & used, rather than to chuck in a glass display case for others to pay deference to. So, does anybody have a better collective noun for their family or group of cameras than a collection?

Or in a reference to an old primary school chat-up line, what do you call yours?

02Pilot · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2016, 11:16:44 AM »

I prefer "pile".

zapsnaps · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2016, 11:36:39 AM »

'Pile' is good. I may have a pile of them on my desk at the minute, actually.

Francois · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2016, 01:23:41 PM »

Mine is more a horde...

k.hendrik · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2016, 02:11:57 PM »

I would go for 'a flight' or 'gang'. On second thoughts 'flight' suggests something light and moveable. 'gang' is more suitable for sl66se/RZ67/SWC.

Bryan · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2016, 02:26:16 PM »

My wife calls it a mess.

jharr · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2016, 03:50:22 PM »

I think of mine as a tribe... all slightly different, but working toward one purpose. Someday, I might have a horde (hoard?), but not yet.

Indofunk · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2016, 04:06:00 PM »

A sh*tload.

Late Developer · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2016, 05:06:09 PM »

A "capture" - or does that have too many d*g*tal connotations?

Adam Doe · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2016, 05:35:41 PM »

Sticking to my pseudo-scientific method of determining things by scanning the results of a google search of collective nouns for at least a minute and a half, I have decided upon the term cluster.

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2016, 05:53:37 PM »

It's a bag of cameras.

BAG, noun that cannot be rendered as plural, EVER.

Terry · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2016, 06:39:20 PM »

This thread is just bags of fun.

I think of mine as a fleet...

jojonas~ · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2016, 08:55:31 PM »

hm.... for non shooters I probably say collection but for those in the same line of.. eh, yeah THIS!

I'll more often call them family

Indofunk · « **Reply #13 on:** March 25, 2016, 09:01:44 PM »

Quote from: Terry on March 25, 2016, 06:39:20 PM

I think of mine as a fleet...

I like this one the best so far.

Pete_R · « **Reply #14 on:** March 25, 2016, 09:18:56 PM »

Quote from: Sandeha Lynch on March 25, 2016, 05:53:37 PM

It's a bag of cameras.

BAG, noun that cannot be rendered as plural, EVER.

My wife wouldn't agree that you can't have a plural of bag. She's got a plural of bag many times over... in fact she's got a shedload of them.

Ah, there you go, a shedload of cameras.

Terry · « **Reply #15 on:** March 25, 2016, 09:55:37 PM »

Thank you, Satish!

Jack Johnson · « **Reply #16 on:** March 26, 2016, 03:30:55 AM »

Mine is both a clutter and a clatter.

Indofunk · « **Reply #17 on:** March 26, 2016, 04:02:01 AM »

Quote from: Jack Johnson on March 26, 2016, 03:30:55 AM

Mine is both a clutter and a clatter.

My SRT is a clatter every time I press the shutter button!

limr · « **Reply #18 on:** March 26, 2016, 04:18:55 AM »

Favorites so far:

jharr's "tribe"
Adam's "cluster" (although that leads too easily into "clusterf***" which may be either more or less accurate, actually)
Terry's "fleet"

As for me, I have always like the oddball descriptors of collective nouns. How about "a murder of cameras"? An exaltation? A gaggle? Hmmm, I think I'm leaning towards gaggle.

tkmedia · « **Reply #19 on:** March 26, 2016, 05:02:46 AM »

arsenal !

Francois · « **Reply #20 on:** March 26, 2016, 12:45:54 PM »

Funny nobody chose a heard...

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #21 on:** March 26, 2016, 01:07:57 PM »

Quote from: Francois on March 26, 2016, 12:45:54 PM

Funny nobody chose a heard...

That would be if we were discussing audio equipment, maybe.

Indofunk · « **Reply #22 on:** March 26, 2016, 02:21:31 PM »

Quote from: Sandeha Lynch on March 26, 2016, 01:07:57 PM

Quote from: Francois on March 26, 2016, 12:45:54 PM
Funny nobody chose a heard...

That would be if we were discussing audio equipment, maybe.

How about a seen then?

irv_b · « **Reply #23 on:** March 26, 2016, 05:47:16 PM »

Surely it has to be a "clique" don't it!

k.hendrik · « **Reply #24 on:** March 26, 2016, 06:34:57 PM »

Max Weber would say 'a Gemeinschaft'.

Francois · « **Reply #25 on:** March 26, 2016, 07:41:47 PM »

Quote from: Indofunk on March 26, 2016, 02:21:31 PM

Quote from: Sandeha Lynch on March 26, 2016, 01:07:57 PM
Quote from: Francois on March 26, 2016, 12:45:54 PM
Funny nobody chose a heard...

That would be if we were discussing audio equipment, maybe.
How about a seen then?

I just love autocorrect!

I meant herd

Jack Johnson · « **Reply #26 on:** March 27, 2016, 12:40:14 AM »

Quote from: limr on March 26, 2016, 04:18:55 AM

As for me, I have always like the oddball descriptors of collective nouns. How about "a murder of cameras"? An exaltation? A gaggle? Hmmm, I think I'm leaning towards gaggle.

A suffrage of cameras? A defamation of cameras? A remembrance of cameras?

jharr · « **Reply #27 on:** March 27, 2016, 02:24:38 AM »

How about a Focus or an Occulous?

hookstrapped · « **Reply #28 on:** March 27, 2016, 05:19:09 PM »

a camaraderie

Adam Doe · « **Reply #29 on:** March 27, 2016, 05:33:40 PM »

Quote from: hookstrapped on March 27, 2016, 05:19:09 PM

a camaraderie

Ooooh, good one.

k.hendrik · « **Reply #30 on:** March 27, 2016, 06:54:28 PM »

Sartre; "les autres"

Francois · « **Reply #31 on:** March 27, 2016, 10:30:21 PM »

A flock of flocked boxes?

imagesfrugales · « **Reply #32 on:** March 28, 2016, 10:36:48 AM »

How about "bunch"?

I also like herd, reminds me of Woody Hermans herds.

limr · « **Reply #33 on:** March 28, 2016, 01:46:09 PM »

How about a brood?

Adam Doe · « **Reply #34 on:** March 28, 2016, 04:41:18 PM »

Quote from: limr on March 26, 2016, 04:18:55 AM

...As for me, I have always like the oddball descriptors of collective nouns. How about "a murder of cameras"? An exaltation? A gaggle? Hmmm, I think I'm leaning towards gaggle.

Would then a collection of instant cameras be a pod?

jharr · « **Reply #35 on:** March 28, 2016, 04:46:18 PM »

Quote from: Adam Doe on March 28, 2016, 04:41:18 PM

Quote from: limr on March 26, 2016, 04:18:55 AM
...As for me, I have always like the oddball descriptors of collective nouns. How about "a murder of cameras"? An exaltation? A gaggle? Hmmm, I think I'm leaning towards gaggle.

Would then a collection of instant cameras be a pod?

That's funny to think of different kinds of cameras having different collective nouns. I suppose a collection of instamatics would be a 'cartridge'. Maybe a 'bifurcation' of TLRs?

mcduff · « **Reply #36 on:** March 28, 2016, 07:05:23 PM »

The lamest term I have ever heard (semi)seriously used for a 'collection of something' was back when SLVR and I were longboarders and dudes would talk about what is in your 'quiver' (think Robinhood's group of men).

I am leaning towards either 'pile' or the wife-approved 'mess' suggestions!

Bryan · « **Reply #37 on:** March 28, 2016, 07:17:29 PM »

Quote from: mcduff on March 28, 2016, 07:05:23 PM

The lamest term I have ever heard (semi)seriously used for a 'collection of something' was back when SLVR and I were longboarders and dudes would talk about what is in your 'quiver' (think Robinhood's group of men).

I am leaning towards either 'pile' or the wife-approved 'mess' suggestions!

I wouldn't say she approves of it, more like tolerates.

Francois · « **Reply #38 on:** March 28, 2016, 08:32:58 PM »

As mom always says, as long as it's confined to a single remote room with a door that closes it's OK.

Skorj · « **Reply #39 on:** May 02, 2016, 02:16:00 PM »

A 'snap'.

Francois · « **Reply #40 on:** May 02, 2016, 08:40:23 PM »

Ohhh! Very rice crispies of you

rpmdrd · « **Reply #41 on:** July 13, 2016, 01:31:17 AM »

how about a "Lot"

astrobeck · « **Reply #42 on:** July 13, 2016, 03:24:28 AM »

I usually refer to mine as a "herd"

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #43 on:** July 13, 2016, 11:25:23 AM »

Have we had "a FEDeration" of cameras yet?

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #44 on:** July 13, 2016, 11:27:43 AM »

Alternatively - and sailing very close to the wind in terms of nonsensical collective nouns - how about "A Work In Progress" of cameras? Or "A Not Done Yet" of cameras? Possibly "A Burgeoning" of cameras? A "Just Getting Started" of cameras? "A Hobby" of cameras?

I quite like Burgeoning.

Late Developer · « **Reply #45 on:** July 13, 2016, 12:15:23 PM »

I've just been trawling through my memory for a term I heard used by a teacher many years ago and which, when I questioned what it meant, I was told "enough".

The term? An Elegant Sufficiency.

Francois · « **Reply #46 on:** July 13, 2016, 03:02:40 PM »

Right now, I'm more having a camera bloom

jharr · « **Reply #47 on:** July 13, 2016, 09:12:41 PM »

Quote from: Francois on July 13, 2016, 03:02:40 PM

Right now, I'm more having a camera bloom

Then I guess you would have a Bouquet of cameras!

Francois · « **Reply #48 on:** July 13, 2016, 10:10:44 PM »

I wonder what that does to our flower foul?

Jack Johnson · « **Reply #49 on:** July 16, 2016, 06:38:53 PM »

Quote from: Late Developer on July 13, 2016, 12:15:23 PM

I've just been trawling through my memory for a term I heard used by a teacher many years ago and which, when I questioned what it meant, I was told "enough".

The term? An Elegant Sufficiency.

A sufficiency of cameras is either a blasphemy or a fairytale.