Camera obscura
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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.
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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.
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A Great Band consisting of:
Tracyanne - Vocals, Guitars
Kenny - Guitars, Vocals
Gavin - Bass Guitar
Nigel - Trumpet, Percussion
Lee - Drums, Percussion
[Carey] - piano, organ, Vocals -
<small>An amazing [band].</small>
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