point-and-shoot camera

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   a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus

   Broadercamera

Questions about point-and-shoot camera

What does point-and-shoot camera mean?

point-and-shoot camera means "a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus".

Is point-and-shoot camera a common word?

point-and-shoot camera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.