Camera
['kæm(ə)rə] or ['kæmərə]
Definition
(noun.) equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other).
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Definition
(n.) A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
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Definition
n. a vaulted room: the judge's private chamber (In camera of a case heard there rather than in public court).—adj. Cam′erāted divided into chambers: arched or vaulted.
n. the variety of camera-obscura used by photographers.—ns. Cam′era-lū′cida an instrument by which the rays of light from an object are reflected by a specially shaped prism forming an image on the paper underneath; Cam′era-obscū′ra an instrument for throwing the images of external objects on a white surface placed within a dark chamber or box.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a camera, signifies that changes will bring undeserved environments. For a young woman to dream that she is taking pictures with a camera, foretells that her immediate future will have much that is displeasing and that a friend will subject her to acute disappointment.
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Examples
- Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The camera obscura consisted of a box with a lens at one end and a ground glass at the other, just like a modern camera. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Pretschi, have also successfully directed their attention to engraving the images of the camera, which has now obtained a high degree of perfection. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It was evidently taken by a snapshot from a small camera. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When a photographer takes a photograph of a person or a tree, he moves his camera until the image formed by the lens is of the desired size. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The screen of ground glass has a black back, and is placed in the focus of a lens in an ordinary camera obscura, wherein the image may be seen by looking down upon it. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- To lighten the camera burden, and to simplify the various photographic processes, were the problems that confronted the American inventor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A very convenient and useful development in films is to be found in the cartridge system, by which the film may be placed in and removed from the camera in broad daylight. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Brett’s British patent No. 1,629, of 1853, appears to be the earliest description of a stereoscopic camera. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The three _colour processes_ is the name given to the new offspring of the inventors which reproduces by the camera the natural colours of objects. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- An exposure today with a modern camera, under similar conditions, could be made in 1/1000 of a second. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This, however, was finally accomplished, and in the summer of 1889 the first modern motion-picture camera was made. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Under all conditions the light is properly screened and diffused to suit the critical eye of the camera man. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Calotype process, by which the images of the camera can be fixed upon paper, was invented by Mr. Talbot, in 1840. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Muybridge secured only one cycle of movement, because a separate camera had to be used for each photograph and consequently each cycle was reproduced over and over again. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edward Muybridge, an Englishman, by way of experiment, placed numerous cameras at regular intervals about the track, which, by electrical contact, were snapped by the horse in passing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In practice these views are taken by special cameras, and are printed on long transparent ribbons that contain many hundreds, and even thousands of the views. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Their lenses for telescopes and microscopes and photographic cameras, and glass and prisms, and for all chemical and other scientific work, have a worldwide reputation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The plan adopted by the best photographers is to have two cameras set at the requisite angle to each other, so that both pictures or portraits may be taken at the same time. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The manufacture of motion-picture cameras. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But finally one of their flights attracted so much attention that a score of men appeared with cameras, and the Wrights decided that it was time to stop their experiments. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Among the many other ingenious and useful hand cameras may be mentioned the Premo, made by the Rochester Optical Company, and shown in Fig. 205. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Muybridge, as we have seen, used a series of cameras, one for each plate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We no longer see any photographs, photo-engravings, photolithographs, or snap-shot cameras. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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