Camera Device
A Camera Device is an optical device that is a recording device.
- AKA: Optical Recorder.
- Context:
- It can (typically) produce a Visual Artifact, such as a photograph.
- It can range from being a Still-Shot Camera to being a Video Camera.
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- Example(s):
- a Film Camera.
- a Digital Camera, such as a smartphone camera.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Digital Sensor, Lens, Shutter (Photography), Digital Imaging, Photographic Printing, Videography, Cinematography.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera Retrieved:2020-5-28.
- A camera is an optical instrument used to record images. At their most basic, cameras are sealed boxes (the camera body) with a small hole (the aperture) that let light in to capture an image on a light-sensitive surface (usually photographic film or a digital sensor). Cameras have various mechanisms to control how the light falls onto the light-sensitive surface. Lenses focus the light entering the camera, the size of the aperture can be widened or narrowed to let more or less light into the camera, and a shutter mechanism determines the amount of time the photo-sensitive surface is exposed to the light.
The still image camera is the main instrument in the art of photography and captured images may be reproduced later as a part of the process of photography, digital imaging, photographic printing. The similar artistic fields in the moving image camera domain are film, videography, and cinematography.
The word camera comes from camera obscura, which means "dark chamber" and is the Latin name of the original device for projecting an image of external reality onto a flat surface. The modern photographic camera evolved from the camera obscura. The functioning of the camera is very similar to the functioning of the human eye. The first permanent photograph was made in 1825 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.
- A camera is an optical instrument used to record images. At their most basic, cameras are sealed boxes (the camera body) with a small hole (the aperture) that let light in to capture an image on a light-sensitive surface (usually photographic film or a digital sensor). Cameras have various mechanisms to control how the light falls onto the light-sensitive surface. Lenses focus the light entering the camera, the size of the aperture can be widened or narrowed to let more or less light into the camera, and a shutter mechanism determines the amount of time the photo-sensitive surface is exposed to the light.