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What does Camera stand for?
The term camera comes from the word camera obscura(Latin for "dark chamber"), an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern camera evolved from the camera obscura.
What is the definition of a camera?
Camera is a piece of equipment which traces images. Those images can be motionless photographs and can also be moving images such like movies and videos. This term "camera" comes up from the camera obscura (Latin for dark chamber)
How and who was the first camera discovered?
The term camera comes from the Latin "camera obscura" which means dark chamber and was a small box with a mirror inside that would project an image onto a piece of glass. The first camera obscura was probably built by a man called Alhazen in the 11th century. Later, during the Renaissance, many artists like Leonardo Da Vinci used a camera obscura to trace a scene that they would later paint. So, the original camera was used for painting on canvas, not for taking pictures as we normally do now. And even now, the camera obscura is not even a traditional camera, but a microchip in a digital camera.
What does latinate term mean?
I learn Latin at school and "term" in Latin is "terminium"
What does ice mean in latin?
The Latin term for ice is glacies, or gelu.
What does Smize for the camera mean?
"Smize For The Camera" Is a term from tyra banks, It Means Smiling For Your Eyes.
What does the Latin term 'lux' mean?
Light
What the term bad mean in Latin?
Mal
What does the latin term alevosia mean?
premeditation
What does the latin term nimbus mean?
Cloud.
What is the definition of the word camera?
From New Latin camera obscura ("dark chamber"), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room; from Latin camera ("chamber or bedchamber"), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamara, "anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault"). Scientists in the medieval Middle East, such as Al-Haitham, made significant advances in optics by experimenting with pinhole cameras, adopting the Latin/Greek word into Arabic (AL QAMRA- القمرة) and further analyzing this phenomenon. camera 1708, "vaulted building," from L. camera "vaulted room" (cf. It. camera, Sp. camara, Fr. chambre), from Gk. kamara "vaulted chamber," from PIE base *kam- "to arch." The word also was used early 18c. as a short form of Mod.L. camera obscura "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images
What does the latin term coatus feici mean in English?
These words do not exist in Latin.
