Recorder turned up with academician (6)
I believe the answer is:
camera
'recorder' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Optical recorder ' mean 'camera' so perhaps 'recorder' could also mean 'camera')
'turned up with academician' is the wordplay.
'turned up' becomes 'came' (I've seen this in another clue).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'academician' becomes 'RA' (member of the Royal Academy of Arts).
'came'+'ra'='CAMERA'
(Other definitions for camera that I've seen before include "Photographic instrument" , "Photograph taker" , "Photographic apparatus" , "An image-capturing device" , "Device for recording images" .)