Camera
Camera , noun
[Latin vault, arch, Late Latin, chamber. See Chamber.]
A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
Collocations (3)
Bellows camera , See under Bellows.
In camera (Law) , in a judge's chamber, that is, privately; as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera.
Panoramic camera or Pantascopic camera , a photographic camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. — Abney