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a machine that steals a moment so reality can't take it back
means a device that captures images, either as still photographs or moving video, by focusing light onto a recording surface
from From Latin 'camera obscura,' meaning 'dark chamber' — literally a darkened room with a small hole that projected the outside world, upside down, onto an inner wall. 'Camera' itself is Latin for a vaulted or arched room (a cousin of the architectural 'chamber'). When the dark room shrank into a portable box, the name came along, and 'obscura' eventually dropped away, leaving just the chamber.
- latin root
- camera means room, from the original room-sized box
- first photo
- 1826 shot needed eight hours of exposure
- eye mimic
- the lens works exactly like your retina, flipped
- phone takeover
- trillions of photos a year, almost all pocket-sized
- shutter speed
- some capture light in a millionth of a second
kodak brownie — first mass-market camera, 1900, democratized photography for consumers
leica m3 — rangefinder camera introduced 1954, became standard for photojournalists
canon eos-1d — professional dslr launched 1989, revolutionized sports and news photography
iphone camera — integrated camera in 2007 that became the world's most-used camera