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An articulating screen is a built-in small
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An articulating screen is a built-in small electronic visual display
An electronic visual display, informally a screen, is a display device for presentation of images, text, or video transmitted electronically, without producing a permanent record. Electronic visual displays include television sets, computer monito ...
which is not fixed, but rather can be repositioned using a hinge or pivot. The articulating screen is known under different other names such as flip-out screen, flip screen, adjustable screen, articulated screen, or hinged screen. According to the way it moves, there are four main types:
#The display moves around one axis, so that it only tilts. It is called ''tilting screen'' or ''tiltable screen''.
#The display tilts horizontally both up and down and also vertically. This type is called ''double-hinged tilting screen'', ''two-axis tilting screen'', ''three-direction tilting screen'' or ''screen with 3-way tilt''.
#The display moves around two axes which are at a right angle to each other, so that the screen both tilts and swivels. This type is called ''swivel screen''. Other names for this type are ''vari-angle screen'', ''fully articulated screen'', ''fully articulating screen'', ''rotating screen'', ''multi-angle screen'', ''variable angle screen'', ''flip-out-and-twist screen'', ''twist-and-tilt screen'' and ''swing-and-tilt screen''.
#The display is mounted on a fully-articulating hinge that itself is attached to a tilting plate. Such display can be extended out from the back of the camera, ensuring it stays clear of the camera's left-mounted ports when flipping it out to the side. This type of articulating screen is called ''tilt-and-articulating screen''.
#The display moves into a variety of angles; it tilts horizontally and vertically and also rotates to a certain extent while staying aligned with the lens axis. It still can not be turned all the way up, down or to the side to be seen from the front of the camera for self-portraits. This type of articulating screen is called ''cross-tilt screen'', ''flexible-tilt screen'' or ''flex-tilt screen''.
Articulating screens are used in a variety of electronic devices such as laptop
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s, camcorder
A camcorder is a self-contained portable electronic device with video and recording as its primary function. It is typically equipped with an articulating screen mounted on the left side, a belt to facilitate holding on the right side, hot-sw ...
s, digital cameras, desk phones, mobile phone
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s, DVD player
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s and others; also TV screens and computer monitors can be articulating screens.
This article focuses on digital photography
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, where an articulating screen allows convenient or unobtrusive shooting from various perspectives.
Digital cameras with a tilting screen
''The tilting screens of camera models marked with an asterisk (*) here below can be tilted by 180 degrees or close to it so that they may be used to take self portraits more easily.''
Casio
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JVC
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*GC-PX10(*) (2011)
Kodak
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* Pixpro S-1 (2014)
DiMAGE A2
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Specifications
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(2004)
Lytro
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*Illium (2014)
DiMAGE A1
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(2003)
Olympus
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Greece
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Rollei
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Samsung
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Sony
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Vivikai
*DC-1550(*) (2011)Vivitar (ViviCam iTwist series)
Digital cameras with a double-hinged tilting screen
Digital cameras with a swivel screen
Casio
is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. ...
Kodak
The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak ) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorpor ...
Olympus
Olympus or Olympos ( grc, Ὄλυμπος, link=no) may refer to:
Mountains
In antiquity
Greece
* Mount Olympus in Thessaly, northern Greece, the home of the twelve gods of Olympus in Greek mythology
* Mount Olympus (Lesvos), located in Le ...
OM Digital Solutions
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Protax
Samsung
The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
Vivikai
*DC600 (2010)Digital cameras with a tilt-and-articulating screen
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
Digital cameras with a cross-tilt screen
K-1
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(2016)
* K-1 II (2018)
Accessories
Aftermarket products are available which can be fitted to static screen cameras. These reflect the screen image, or capture and duplicate the image.See also
{{Commons category, Articulating camera screens * Swivel lens *Waist-level finder
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— film camera optical focusing screen viewed from above
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