Couldn't say "shoot - shot"
So I made a new verb "camera" in '14 "camera - cameraed"
Awkward ... looking to other languages +
I "foti - pafis" in Esperanto Danish is "fotografere - varmt" hmmm
How did the word "shoot" come to be used in the context of photography?
Its first use in that sense is from the late 1800s and was more commonly applied to movies than to photography.
There are many uses of "shoot" predating this usage which have more to do with moving quickly than with firing a bullet, such as "shooting star" for a meteor, "shoot a river" for descending rapids, or "shoot the moon" for fleeing at night.
I don't think there's any record of how "shoot a film" came to be used for movie photography, but if I had to bet, my wild guess would be the inherent similarities between movie cameras of the day...... and the Gatling gun...
So I made a new verb "camera" in '14 "camera - cameraed"
Awkward ... looking to other languages +
I "foti - pafis" in Esperanto Danish is "fotografere - varmt" hmmm
How did the word "shoot" come to be used in the context of photography?
Its first use in that sense is from the late 1800s and was more commonly applied to movies than to photography.
There are many uses of "shoot" predating this usage which have more to do with moving quickly than with firing a bullet, such as "shooting star" for a meteor, "shoot a river" for descending rapids, or "shoot the moon" for fleeing at night.
I don't think there's any record of how "shoot a film" came to be used for movie photography, but if I had to bet, my wild guess would be the inherent similarities between movie cameras of the day...... and the Gatling gun...
... not only in appearance but in how the user's body is situated relative to it.