The phrase "as a camera operator" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing someone's role or function in a specific context related to film or video production.
Example: "She has worked in various capacities in the film industry, but she truly shines as a camera operator."
Alternatives: "in the role of a camera operator" or "as a cinematographer."
The journalist, Javed Yazamy, worked primarily for the CTV network as a camera operator and assistant covering Canadian troops in the Kandahar region.
Its director, Stephen Campanelli, worked alongside Clint Eastwood for 20 years as a camera operator on films such as Million Dollar Baby and American Sniper.
Mr. Knox, a Hastings resident, has worked as a camera operator on 120 or so movies over the last 20 years.
Diego Quemada-Díez, another Spanish director who said he was the first person in his family to leave Spain since at least the 1400s, moved to Mexico in 2008 after working as a camera operator in Hollywood.
In the 50s he moved to MGM's base at Elstree studios, Hertfordshire, for two years and worked as a camera operator and eventually assistant to leading cameramen such as Jack Hildyard and Ted Moore.
To help him with his survey, Mr. Akin, who wrote and directed the film and also served as a camera operator, has enlisted Alexander Hacke, the bassist from the industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten.
He also featured in the show's radio spin-off The TV Lark as Fatso Johnson, a camera operator, and as a trainee chef in Crowther's Crowd in 1963, and had roles on Variety Playhouse.
The missing ITN journalists were identified as Terry Lloyd, a reporter; Fred Nerac, a camera operator; and Hussein Othman, a translator.
All eyes were on Jackson, the former Knick and the former Garden enemy, as he did calisthenics with a camera operator in his face.
A reporter and a camera operator would often catch them as they stepped off the ice.
Anderson and Arthur Provis, a camera operator, set up Pentagon Films, whose recruits included Sylvia as a secretary.
