• An apparatus in which the image of an external object orobjects is, by means of lenses. thrown upon a sensitized plate orsurface placed at the back or an extensible darkened box or chambervariously modifled; -- commonly called simply the camera.


    Camera obscura meaning & definition 1 of Camera obscura.


  • A=
    Camera = Latin for “room”
    [Obscura] = Latin for “dark”
    Go into a very dark room on a bright day. Make a small hole in a window cover and look at the opposite wall. What do you see? Magic! There in [full color] and movement will be the world outside the window — upside down! This magic is explained by a simple law of the physical world. Light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected from a bright subject pass through a small hole in thin material they do not [scatter] but cross and reform as an upside down image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole. This law of [optics] was known in ancient times.
    B=
    A Great Band consisting of:
    Tracyanne - Vocals, Guitars
    Kenny - Guitars, Vocals
    Gavin - Bass Guitar
    Nigel - Trumpet, Percussion
    Lee - Drums, Percussion
    [Carey] - piano, organ, Vocals

    Camera obscura meaning & definition 2 of Camera obscura.


  • <small>An amazing [band].</small>

    Camera obscura meaning & definition 3 of Camera obscura.

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