opptaker

Opptaker is a Norwegian noun meaning a person or device that records or captures something. It derives from opptak, meaning recording or capture, with the agentive suffix -er. In everyday Norwegian, opptaker can refer to a hardware recorder (such as lydopptaker or videoopptaker) as well as to a person who makes recordings, for example in journalism, broadcasting, or field reporting.

In technology and media contexts, opptaker describes equipment that records audio or video, as well as the people who operate such equipment. It is used to denote both the instrument used to capture material and the operator who performs the recording. In computing and data collection, the term can also apply to software or hardware that captures data streams, telemetry, or sensor readings, sometimes described simply as a data opptaker.

The word is primarily used in Norwegian. Cognates exist in other Scandinavian languages, such as Danish optager and Swedish upptagare, with related meanings of “one who records” or “recorder.” The related noun opptak refers to the act or result of recording itself, while opptaker denotes the agent or instrument involved in the recording process.