camera

     

A camera is a evice used to capture images, either as still photographs or as sequences of moving images (movies or videos). The term comes from the Latin camera obscura for "dark chamber" for an early mechanism of projecting images where an entire room functioned as a real-time imaging system; the modern camera evolved from the camera obscura.

Trivia about camera

  • Proverbially, it "adds 10 pounds"
  • The Bloggie one of these from Sony has a lens that swivels 270 degrees
  • In "Goodbye to Berlin", Isherwood wrote, "I am" this "with its shutter open", giving the later play version its title
  • In 1931 Harold Edgerton synched a strobe light's flash to this device
  • One of these can be pinhole or single-lens reflex
  • Digital_____obscura
  • The court's deliberations are secret, or "in" this--not "on" this, which would mean very un-secret
  • Exposure counter,pentaprism,take-up spool

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