1. An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film, plate, or sensor.
2. The part of a television transmitting apparatus that receives the primary image on a light-sensitive cathode-ray tube and transforms it into electrical impulses.
3. Camera obscura.
4. pl., -er·ae (-ə-rē). A judge's private chamber.

in camera

1. In private.

1. Outside the field of view of a television or movie camera.

1. Within the field of view of a television or movie camera.

[Late Latin, room. See chamber.]

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