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CAMERA

The original “camera” was a vaulted room, which is the meaning of the Latin term. In the 1600s, the term “camera obscura” was coined to describe a “darkened room”. This was usage was extended to describe an optical device made from a room with a small hole in one wall. Light from the scene outside passes through the hole and projects an image onto the inside walls of the room. The smaller the hole, the sharper is the image. Camera obscuras also came in smaller sizes, in the form of darkened boxes instead of rooms. These boxes developed (pun!) into our modern “cameras”.

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