Way to batch hide for render? How can I disable rendering for a large amount of objects quickly using, say a keyboard short cut. I want it to be equivalent to clicking the camera icon in the outliner.
Select the mesh, and press Ctrl+H. The mesh will still be visible in the viewport, but it will now be hidden in the render.

As you can see it is visible in the viewport render still:



However if I press F12 and render an image, it is hidden.



This works for any number of objects, just select them all, and press Ctrl+H. Notice also that Ctrl+Alt+H unhides the selected meshes from the final render.