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Director recording outside in the morning light (8)

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I believe the answer is:

headlamp

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'director recording' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'outside in the morning light' is the wordplay.
'outside in the morning' becomes 'head' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'light' becomes 'lamp' (lamp is a kind of light).
'head'+'lamp'='HEADLAMP'

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(Another definition for headlamp that I've seen is " Chief light on car".)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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