Short for 'camera obscura' (dark room), from Latin 'camera' (vault) — the device replaced the darkened projection room.
A device for recording visual images in the form of photographs, film, or video signals.
Shortened from 'camera obscura' (dark room), from Latin 'camera' (vault, arched chamber, room), from Greek 'kamara' (vaulted chamber, anything with an arched cover), possibly from PIE *kam- (to vault, to arch). The camera obscura — a darkened room with a small hole admitting light to project an inverted image on the opposite wall — was a well-known optical principle since antiquity. When photography was invented, the portable device was named after the room it replaced. Key
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