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Camera with Flash Emoji 📸

A camera with its flash firing, the camera-with-flash emoji is built for the exact moment a photo gets taken. It's used for 'picture time,' paparazzi-style shots, and flash photography specifically — brighter and more attention-grabbing than the plain camera emoji's quiet snapshot.

What 📸 means

A camera designed with the same format and idea as the 📷 Camera with an evident addition of a flash, shown as an orangish 💥 explosion above the lens.

The 📸 Camera With Flash emoji signifies photography carried out in the night, the dark, or in any dimly-lit place/scenario. It suggests directed light/lighting, brightening a moment and a sense of increasing visibility.

How and when to use it

If you're using the function of the flash in a metaphorical context, 📸. is the perfect emoji. For example, "I captured my own illumination the moment I met my darkness 📸" or "You're not afraid of the dark, you're only afraid you didn't carry your camera 📸".
Use 📸 while sharing pictures captured in the dark or the night; it can be a drunken picture of your buddies, a serious post on night-light photography or even a repost of a picture of the night sky.
If you're the kind to 'credit' your photography for the picture you're uploading on your social media handle, use 📸 next to the photographer's name or their '@'.
If you're a photographer, 📸 can be in your social media profile name, bio or any context that needs 'more info' about you.
Speaking of photographers, 📸 is the perfect emoji to use in the framework of the paparazzi or just attention (they're the same things aren't they?).

Other Names

📸 Camera
📸 Night Photography
📸 Illuminating Photography
📸 Auto Flash
📸 Flash: On
📸 Camera With the Flash Turned On

The lowdown

Category: Objects › light & video
Codepoints: U+1F4F8
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :camera_flash: GitHub:camera_with_flash: Slack · Discord
Keywords: camera, flash, video

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.