rangefinder

rangefinder

See also: range finder

English

Alternative forms

• range finder

Etymology

range +‎ finder

Noun

rangefinder (plural rangefinders)

1. Any of several designs of optical (or other) instrument that is used to measure the distance to an object
2. (photography) Abbreviation of rangefinder camera.

Synonyms

• RF (abbreviation)

Coordinate terms

(photography):

• DSLR, ZLR, SLR, P&S/PS
• single-lens reflex, digital single-lens reflex, point-and-shoot/point and shoot
• single-lens reflex camera, digital single-lens reflex camera, point-and-shoot camera/point and shoot camera

Translations

instrument

Bulgarian: далекомер (bg) m (dalekomer) Chinese: Mandarin: 測距儀／测距仪 (zh) (cèjùyí) Finnish: etäisyysmittari French: télémètre (fr) m German: Entfernungsmesser m, Distanzmessgerät n Greek: τηλέμετρο (el) n (tilémetro) Hungarian: távolságmérő (hu) Italian: telemetro (it) m Japanese: 距離計 (きょりけい, kyorikei), 測距儀 (そっきょぎ, sokkyogi) Polish: dalmierz (pl) m Russian: дальноме́р (ru) m (dalʹnomér), телеме́тр (ru) m (telemétr) (dated)

See also

• (photography): rangefinder camera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia