camera operator
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professional operator of a film or video camera; filmmaker who moves the camera according to the instructions of the cameraman or director
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Encyclopedic overview
A camera operator, or depending on the context cameraman or camerawoman, is a professional operator of a film camera or video camera as part of a film crew.
Duties and functions
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “camera operator” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.