Definitions for: Camera


[n] equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)
[n] television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam



Webster (1913) Definition: Cam"e*ra, n.; pl. E. Cameras, L. Camerae. [L.
vault, arch, LL., chamber. See Chamber.]
A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The
camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and
Camera obscura.

Bellows camera. See under Bellows.

In camera (Law), in a judge's chamber, that is, privately;
as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open
court in camera.

Panoramic, or Pantascopic, camera, a photographic
camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so
as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to
the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical
slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. --Abney.

Synonyms: photographic camera, television camera, tv camera

See Also: aperture, box camera, box Kodak, camcorder, camera lens, candid camera, cartridge, cine-camera, delayed action, diaphragm, digital camera, finder, flash camera, magazine, mosaic, motion-picture camera, movie camera, optical lens, photographic equipment, Polaroid camera, Polaroid Land camera, portrait camera, reflex camera, shutter, sprocket, stop, television equipment, television pickup tube, television-camera tube, video equipment, view finder, viewfinder

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