History Main / CameraFiend

* ''{{VideoGame/Uncharted}}'':
** Elena Fisher in ''VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune'' in the course of the game captures all the important footage for her documentary (for which the network is providing backing for the exploration). [[spoiler: Later in the game a predictably rickety RopeBridge collapses beneath her and Drake's feet, forcing her to free her hand and climb up by letting go of the camera. Camera or your life indeed]].
** In ''Videogame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'', Chloe Fisher can snap photos of the various scenic locales she finds with her smartphone.
* The player character in ''VideoGame/MichiganReportFromHell'' is a TV news cameraman who hardly ever puts down the camera for ''anything''. Not zombie attacks, not BodyHorror monsters, not even to get a kiss from the hot reporter chick whose life you save.
* Aya Shameimaru of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''. She even has her own spin-off game, ''Shoot the Bullet'', which has her taking pictures of [[BulletHell spellcard]] patterns of the other characters. {{Fandom}} [[{{Flanderisation}} flanderised]] this into a specialization in upskirts and Reimu's armpits.

* TJ Snapper in ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' is this, during the Freeze Frame minigames. A perfect on one of them unlocks commentary about him from his girlfriend's perspective.
--> "My boyfriend's funny, it's like he was born with a camera glued to his nose, or something."

* Jin Sun-Kwon from ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' never leaves her camera behind. She may not carry any sort of firearm, but the camera's there. Somewhat justified since she's the team's data analyst, but that wouldn't obligate her to keep her camera throughout ''Extraction Point'', particularly [[spoiler:up to the moment of her death. A weird twist is that the unmanned camera continuously snaps shots of her corpse]].

* One of the gameplay mechanics for ''VideoGame/DarkChronicle'' has you taking pictures of things in order to invent new items.

* Dorothy Hyatt from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky''. She's a CuteClumsyGirl who more often than not stumbles into trouble due to her own ditzyness. She's also a genius photographer who on several occasions proves instrumental in gathering evidence in unlikely places since she's too caught up in her work to understand that private facilities and shady meetings aren't appropriate places to snap pictures. It's this combination that ironically makes her one of the best reporters in the Liberl News in spite of the trouble she causes.
* Mahiru Koizumi in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', the Ultimate Photographer, whose work focuses on people that are smiling. If you hang out with her in Island Mode, she'll at least have the decency to warn you that if you do anything stupid in front of her, she won't waste a single opportunity to take a shot of it.
* Prompto of ''Videogame/FinalFantasyXV'' loves taking pictures of all the various things the group finds during their journey and will even take pictures during battle somehow. Photography is his personal skill, where during camp you can select a number of photos to save [[spoiler:and choose one of them to be used in TheStinger]].

* In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', the PlayerCharacter, Max Caulfield, always carries her old-school Polaroid camera with her. Not surprising, given that she is a photography student.
** She does it in part to emulate her teacher, Mark Jefferson, who provides the page quote. As a very famous photographer, he teaches all that he knows at Blackwell Academy, tells his students to “always take the shot”, and is partly responsible for fostering Max's habits. [[spoiler:He is also [[BitchInSheepsClothing quite the literal fiend]] who takes the trope [[PlayedForHorror to disturbing levels]], as he is the BigBad drugging and kidnapping girls to take them to his Dark Room, where he photographs them in bondage and sexualized positions and tortures them, all to capture the moment where innocence becomes corrupted.]]
* Miles Arbeck in VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles4 can often be seen snapping pictures of his squad mates throughout the story, even though film is harder to come by on the front lines of the campaign. His photos are used in a number of montages too.

* The human counterpart of Photo Finish takes on this role in "Photo Finished", one of the animated shorts released by Hasbro as a lead-in to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames''. She goes completely overboard while taking pictures for the school yearbook.

* Eddie Storkowitz in ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}'' often carries a video camera with him to film everyday life, as he aspires to be a filmmaker.

* The title sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' shows Arthur irritating his family by constantly trying to get group shots wherever they go. Eventually, they all pull out cameras and get a photo of him looking unamused.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Pretty is like this with her smartphone's camera. She normally tries to post the pictures on a social networking site called "Fakebook".

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* Kurishima from ''Manga/RealAccount'' is a dark take on this trope. He walks around, finds vulnerable people, [[BreakThemByTalking breaks them]], and takes pictures of their despaired faces to gush over them later.

* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' has two, and none of them has anything clean in their intentions:
** Mari, the president of the Earth Sciences Club, often sneaks in pictures of the club's activities, much to Mikage's dismay and Moe's excitement. Chapter 16 reveals the Mari and Moe share photography experiences and tips.
** Mira's ChildhoodFriend Moe "Suzu" Suzuya is fond of photographing the cast members at every opportunity and even. She pays Mira and Ao a modeling fee for the pictures she discreetly took of them while they were working at the Suzyua bakery.

* Michaelangelo Antonioni's ''Film/{{Blowup}}'' is about a fashion photographer who thinks he has captured a murder in the act in the background of one of his shots.
* Brophy from Creator/MelBrooks' Hitchcock homage ''Film/HighAnxiety''. In a parody of ''Blow Up'', he finds proof that [[spoiler:an imposter commmited a murder that the main character is accused of]] by blowing up one of his candid photographs to wall-size.
* ''Film/{{Pecker}}'' from the John Waters film of the same name is all about this trope.
* ''Film/OneHourPhoto'' had Creator/RobinWilliams in the unusual role of an obsessive film ''developer'', to the point that he was practically stalking one family through their pictures that he was developing.
* Micah from ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' qualifies as this, as he is obessed with that camera, calling it his baby at some point in the movie, and refusing to get rid of it, even when he knows the camera only makes the demon angrier.
* Katsuji from ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch''. "Work a camera? [[IAmTheNoun I AM a camera]]!"

* ''Film/TheSkydivers'' has a minor character who is this trope. He's asked what he does with all the pictures he takes: "Sit home and look at them."
* ''Film/PeepingTom'' is a definitive example.
* ''Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure'', the ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' spinoff/sequel, has film student Peyton Leverett making a film about Sharpay. When he doesn't have a camera in his hands, he's probably on his laptop editing the footage.
* Ricky in ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' is always videoing and has a large collection of homemade tapes in his room.
* Doug Hastings in ''Film/StrictlyBallroom'' always seems to have his old film camera in someone's face.
* In ''Film/MethHead'', Dusty was always seen with his camera. Even when he and his friend was desperate for money, he refused to pawn his camera.

* ''Film/HighAndTight'' opens with Seth's scrapbook of home movies at a Halloween party - showing everyone getting drunker and sillier.

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': Dr. Cox's best friend and ex-brother-in-law Ben Sullivan is an avid photographer, and he says he won't stop taking photos "until the day he dies". [[spoiler:Which is one of the clues to TheReveal at the end of "My Screw Up".]]
* Canadian teenage sitcom ''Series/StudentBodies'' crosses this with SchoolNewspaperNewsHound in the aptly-nicknamed character, Flash. At one point she describes cameras as "her babies."

* In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', the Doctor has a 24th-century holo-camera that he loves using. It was a key element in at least one episode.
* Simon films just about everything on his camera-phone during the first season of ''Series/{{Misfits}}''. He doesn't do it so much in season 2, a sign that he is actually starting to ''engage'' with people rather than standing around filming them creepily.

* Joel on ''Series/DeadOfSummer'', who is filming his experience as a camp counselor.

* ''Theatre/IAndYou'': Though she uses her phone camera rather than a professional one, Caroline startles Anthony at several points by suddenly taking photos of him while they're talking and has numerous photos she's taken taped around her room. She happily explains that she hopes to be a professional photographer someday, and when he sees her photographs Anthony admits she has a natural talent for it.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** Lotta Hart, the IntrepidReporter introduced in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''. It especially shows in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth 2'': whenever she's accompanying you, she's endlessly taking photos of everything in sight.
** [[{{Fanboy}} Cody Hackins]] of the first game falls into this category. He refuses to testify unless he is allowed to bring his camera into the courtroom.

* In the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' OAV, Tenchi's dad was shown to be a bit of a PeepingTom and a pervert. In ''[[TheMovie Tenchi Muyo In Love]]'', it becomes clear that Tenchi's dad was a Camera Fiend when he and Tenchi's mother were in school.

* Velvet Scarlatina, the cute Aussie bunny girl of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', has been revealed as this trope, [[PlayedForLaughs though she's actually pretty lousy at photography]]. [[spoiler:Or not. Turns out the camera is ''her weapon'': taking photographs of other characters' weapons lets her create HardLight copies and [[DittoFighter mimic their fighting styles]], though it runs out when she finally unleashes it and she has to take more photographs to "reload", making it TooAwesomeToUse.]]

* Nicole in ''Crazy/Beautiful'' took tons of pictures with her vintage Polaroid camera. There was even a scrapbook montage at the end of the movie containing her photos.

* Kazumi Asakura of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' likes to use her [[WackyHomeRoom Wacky Class']] antics to her advantage whenever she can, or otherwise obsessing in some way about GoingForTheBigScoop. Her class panics when being attacked by a ghost? She pulls out her camera immediately.

* Since all modern cell phones have a built-in camera, and most people own such a phone, most people in the world (at least rich countries) actually have their camera on their person constantly. Also, with the spread of sites like Instagram and the concept of "selfies", it's fair to say that a ''lot'' of real-life people live up to this trope nowadays.

** In ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'' he specifically tells Polly that he has [[AddictionDisplacement replaced his addiction to blood]] with one for 'the subtle play of light'.

On the bright side, they'll provide the scrapbook {{Montage}} of happy times near the end of the series. Expect them to be annoyed by being caught on film or having their picture taken. Expect one of the cast to use this to their advantage at some point.

On the bright side, they'll provide the scrapbook {{Montage}} of happy times near the end of the series. May themself be annoyed by being caught on film or having their picture taken. Expect one of the cast to use this to their advantage at some point.

* Ritsu and Mio of ''Manga/KOn'' are a far less extreme example. They both share two aspects of the trope; Mio usually snaps shots of the proverbial "[[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]] moments" while Ritsu focuses on taking the more embarrassing or invasive pictures; essentially they play double-duty providing most of the scrap-book shots throughout the series. One odd contrast is that Mio uses film while Ritsu is primarily digital.
** This trait of theirs is anime-invented. The manga's final chapter, however, has Yui sparring some of her meager extra cash on a high-end camera to take pictures of the band, Mio while she was sleeping (and presumably Ritsu and Mugi as well). [[spoiler:This is later revealed to have been the basis for a set of T-shirts they would wear on stage, which Yui had Sawako design using their silhouettes. Ritsu meanwhile worried about what Sawako would ''do'' with the pictures now that the shirts were finished and sent]].

* Mahiru Koizumi in ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'', the Ultimate/Super High School Level Photographer, whose work focuses on people that are smiling. If you hang out with her in Island Mode, she'll at least have the decency to warn you that if you do anything stupid in front of her, she won't waste a single opportunity to take a shot of it.

* Tsutako from ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' is pretty much defined by: "Carries a camera everywhere."

** Phichit Chulanont loves to take pictures and videos of his daily life and upload them to social media sites, and he almost always has his phone on hand to take selfies. His friends Guang-Hong Ji and Leo de la Iglesia are like this to a lesser extent as well.

See also the JapaneseTourist, who will more often than not be one of these. For the darker side of this trope, see ThePeepingTom.

An IntrepidReporter off duty tends to fall into this. Sometimes referred to as a shutter bug.

Because this character is often a budding film or media student, s/he is very likely to be an AuthorAvatar of the production's writer, director, or producer.

** One of the Britannian students in episode 5 of the first season at one of the Shinjuku gravesites is seen taking pictures with his friends, until an enraged Tamaki approaches him.

* In ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'', Peridot always has her cell phone at hand in case there's something interesting to photograph. This lands her a spot in the newspaper club and proves to be helpful in episode 48, since she has taken enough pictures to make a respectable yearbook.

** This trait of theirs is anime-invented. The manga's final chapter however has Yui sparring some of her meager extra cash on a high-end camera to take pictures of the band, Mio while she was sleeping (and presumably Ritsu and Mugi as well). [[spoiler:This is later revealed to have been the basis for a set of T-shirts they would wear on stage, which Yui had Sawako design using their silhouettes. Ritsu meanwhile worried about what Sawako would ''do'' with the pictures now that the shirts were finished and sent]].

* Yoshinori Ikeda, the main person in ''Manga/YubisakiMilkTea'' often takes pictures of him self crossdressing as his alter-ego Yuki. Some of the pictures are used for display by the protographer he work part-time at, while other are for him self as memory, knowing that he won't be crossdressing forever.

* George, sort of, in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached''. During the New Zork chapter he acquires a Super-8 movie camera and over a hundred film cartridges, and he spends a good deal of time filming things in C'hou, though he doesn't do much filming in the other two worlds they visit (mostly because circumstances prevent him from doing so). He figures the films will be wonderful proof of this strange thing that's happened to the four, and is bitterly disappointed when he finds out he can't take the camera and film back to Earth.

* Twoflower and Otto Von Chreik in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. While Otto doesn't constantly take pictures of everything, he still qualifies, because only a Camera Fiend would get a job as a professional photographer when every camera flash has a good chance of ''killing him'' (Otto being a vampire), forcing him to rely on someone else to bring him back to life (after which he does it all over again). Eventually he takes to wearing a small vial of blood around his neck; he takes the shot, turns to ashes, the blood breaks on his ashes and he gets up, cursing.

** Elena Fisher in ''VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune'' in the course of the game captures all the important footage for her documentary (for which the network of is providing backing for the exploration). [[spoiler: Later in the game a predictably rickety RopeBridge collapses beneath her and Drake's feet, forcing her to free her hand and climb up by letting go of the camera. Camera or your life indeed]].

* Since all modern cell phones have a built-in camera, and most people own a such phone, most people in the world (at least rich countries) actually have their camera on their person constantly. Also, with the spread of sites like Instagram and the concept of "selfies", it's fair to say that a ''lot'' of real-life people live up to this trope nowadays.

An IntrepidReporter off duty tends to fall into this. Sometimes referred to as a ShutterBug.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass''

* Elena Fisher in ''VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune'' in the course of the game captures all the important footage for her documentary (for which the network of is providing backing for the exploration). [[spoiler: Later in the game a predictably rickety RopeBridge collapses beneath her and Drake's feet, forcing her to free her hand and climb up by letting go of the camera. Camera or your life indeed]].

* Lotta Hart, the IntrepidReporter in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''. It especially shows in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth 2'': whenever she's accompanying you, she's endlessly taking photos of everything in sight.
** [[{{Fanboy}} Cody Hackins]] of the first game falls into this category as well. He refuses to testify unless he is allowed to bring his camera into the courtroom.

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', Carl "CJ" Johnson has a camera in his Ganton home's bedroom, which he can pick up and even use in some missions.
** Any photos you take when playing appear in the Gallery. They're basically a different sort of screenshot.

-->--'''Mark Jefferson''', ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange''