"camera freezes" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to talk about a moment of stillness or clarity in a film or video, as if the camera has paused to focus on an important detail. For example, "The camera freezes just long enough to let us appreciate the beauty of the landscape before moving on with the story."
At one point, the camera freezes on a small sculpture of Pan having his way with a goat.
Mr. Shepard tilts the camera, freezes the action and unleashes a veritable carnival sideshow — potato ladies, a mustachioed functionary, oily thugs, even a midget towing a giant — which adds noise, certainly.
In the whimsical "Germany III" (2000), the camera freezes the background landscape and sky but leaves hanging in the foreground two indistinct, whirling forms: one vaguely in the shape of a duck, the other the back of a big bird with long legs.
– Camera freezes when capturing video with "Normal" quality and when Photos application is not closed after clip has been watched.
And the camera freezes the big man into a blurry image... and holds him there — the last of a breed, frozen on the misty edge of legend, and of history... Feo, fuerte y formal, which he translated to mean, "He was ugly, was strong and had dignity".
The camera freezes and can also compress time.
The attack missed its target, and Wyler's camera froze.
It seemed that the pedometer had had a meltdown once I got off the boat, maybe a kind of gadget revolt, like the time my camera froze in Iceland.
As the camera froze on the senator's widow, Victoria, struggling to keep her composure, Mr. Obama said, "He never forgot the sheer terror and helplessness that any parent feels when a child is badly sick; and he was able to imagine what it must be like for those without insurance".
My camera froze and I panicked, "what the hell am I doing here, I've gotten myself over my head, I grew up in Calcutta, I won't survive this land, forget about photography".
There was one night our camera froze up, there was one night we had to move into a sound stage to work because it was just too cold out.
