Word Finder - camera

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A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.

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The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.

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A vaulted room.

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The judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

Tell me there's a camera out there!

I wish I had a camera.

Jackson turned the camera on and stood beside her.

Connor still held the camera, recording the action.

Grabbing a camera, he hopped out into the fury of the storm, "for a few quick lightning shots."

This camera was positioned further away and the picture blurry, and more intermittent.

Oh, if I only had a camera.

He was well acquainted with the use of magnifying glasses and suggested a kind of telescope for viewing the moon, but does not seem to have thought of applying a lens to the camera.

He dropped the camera and peered over the edge of the cliff but the outcropping blocked his view of anything below.

In his later book, Dioptrice (1611), he fully discusses refraction and the use of lenses, showing the action of the double convex lens in the camera obscura, with the principles which regulate its use and the reason of the reversal of the image.

Did he have some sort of camera installed?

The first published account of the simple camera obscura was discovered by Libri in a translation of the Architecture of v.

It is interesting to note this early employment of the camera obscura in the field of astronomical research, in which its latest achievements have been of such pre-eminent value.

These are probably the earliest distinct accounts of the natural phenomena of the camera obscura, but remained unpublished for some three centuries.

She held up a disposable camera.

In an earlier form the image is thrown upon a vertical thin paper screen and viewed through a hole in the back of the camera.

Some of his early Mantuan works are in that apartment of the Castello which is termed the Camera degli Sposi - full compositions in fresco, including various portraits of the Gonzaga family, and some figures of genii, &c. In 1488 he went to Rome at the request of Pope Innocent VIII., to paint the frescoes in the chapel of the Belvedere in the Vatican; the marquis of Mantua (Federigo) created him a cavaliere before his departure.

Further, he extended the work of Maurolycus, and demonstrated the exact analogy between the eye and the camera and the arrangement by which an inverted image is produced on the retina.

The earliest mention of the camera obscura in England is probably in Francis Bacon's De Augmentis Scientiarum, but it is only as an illustration of the projected images showing better on a white screen than on a black one.

Wotton's letter of 1620, already noted, was not published till 1651 (Reliquiae Wottonianae, p. 141), but in 1658 a description of Kepler's portable tent camera for sketching, taken from it, was published in a work called Graphite, or the most excellent Art of Painting, but no mention is made of Kepler.

Robert Boyle seems to have been the first to construct a box camera with lens for viewing landscapes.

There is a great deal of practical information on lenses in connexion with the camera and other optical instruments, and the book is valuable as a repertory of early practical optics, also for the numerous references to and extracts from previous writers.

Most of the writers already noticed worked out the problems connected with the projection of images in the camera obscura more by actual practice than by calculation, but William Molyneux, of Dublin, seems to have been the first to treat them mathematically in his Dioptrica Nova (1692), which was also the first work in English on the subject, and is otherwise an interesting book.

Sir Isaac Newton, in his Opticks (1704), explains the principle of the camera obscura with single convex lens and its analogy with vision in illustration of his seventh axiom, which aptly embodies the correct solution of Aristotle's old problem.

This forms an image of the solar spectrum in its focal plane on the camera slit (1).

He also made great use of the simple dark chamber for his optical experiments with prisms, &c. Joseph Priestley (1772) mentions the application of the solar microscope, both to the small and portable and the large camera obscura.

The camera obscura was first applied to photography (q.v.) probably about 1794, by Thomas Wedgwood.

Its labors embraced not only Egypt and Nubia (as far as Khartum) but also the Egyptian monuments in Sinai and Syria; its immense harvest of material is of the highest value, the new device of taking paper impressions or squeezes giving Lepsius a great advantage over his predecessors, similar to that which was later conferred by the photographic camera.

Donald bought him a camera at the Variety store.

The awkward silence behind her was soon filled by the clicking of Laurencio's camera.

Briefcase Digital Video Recording System This is simply a high quality leather briefcase Digital Video Recording System This is simply a high quality leather briefcase containing a cleverly concealed high-resolution color camera and high gain microphone.

This requires two coaxial cables to be run from each camera.

This involves examining the rectum for colon cancer by using a camera fitted on a flexible tube.

The camera shoots close-ups, and you almost feel the person breathing.

He squinted at the camera and started trying to read the autocue in a totally deadpan manner.

Smiling at the camera we can see the vampire fangs of his teeth.

About the beginning of the 19th century Dr Wollaston invented a simple form of the camera lucida which gives bright and erect images.

Before the application of photography, the camera lucida was of considerable importance to draughtsmen.

The advantages claimed for it were its cheapness, smallness and portability; that there was no appreciable distortion, and that its field was much larger than that of the camera obscura.

These belong to the 7th century B.C., and are followed by the tombe a camera, in which the tomb is a chamber hewn in the rock, and which can be traced back to the beginning of the 6th century B.C. From one of the earliest of these came the famous Francois vase; another is the tomb of Poggio Renzo, or della Scimmia (the monkey), with several chambers decorated with archaic paintings.

Mariae were published at Bologna in 1734, as also twelve Sonate d'intavolatura; six Sonate per l'organo ed it cembalo in 1747; and Duetti da camera in 1763.

The Five-foot Spectroheliograph of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory (camera lens, camera slit and plate carrier in section).

In the Camera della Segnatura he depicted the four intellectual powers - theology, philosophy, poetry and law.

It was afterwards applied to the judges' private room behind the court, and, hence, in the phrase in camera, to cases heard in private, i.e.

Finally, the popes have devoted to the missions the income arising from the Chamber of Spoils (Camera Spoliorum), i.e.

In its simplest form it consists of a direct-vision spectroscope, having an adjustable slit (called "camera slit"), instead of an eyepiece, in the focal plane of the observing telescope.

Suppose a fixed image of the sun to be formed on the collimator slit of this spectroscope, and a photographic plate, with its plane parallel to the plane of the solar image, to be mounted almost in contact with the camera slit.

The platform carries the two slits, the collimator and camera objectives and the prism-train.

Beyond the camera slit, and almost in contact with*it, the photographic plate-carrier (j) is mounted on a fixed support.

In order to bring a spectral line upon the camera slit, the slit is widely opened and the plane mirror (f) rotated until the line is seen.