What is the definition of the word camera?

Answer 1

From New Latin camera obscura ("dark chamber"), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room; from Latin camera ("chamber or bedchamber"), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamara, "anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault").

Scientists in the medieval Middle East, such as Al-Haitham, made significant advances in optics by experimenting with pinhole cameras, adopting the Latin/Greek word into Arabic (AL QAMRA- القمرة) and further analyzing this phenomenon.

camera

1708, "vaulted building," from L. camera "vaulted room" (cf. It. camera, Sp. camara, Fr. chambre), from Gk. kamara "vaulted chamber," from PIE base *kam- "to arch." The word also was used early 18c. as a short form of Mod.L. camera obscura "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images

Answer 2

The name derives from "Camera Obscura" or "dark chamber" which referred to the original form that consisted of a room with a very small opening in the wall through which an inverted image of the scene outside was projected onto the wall opposite the opening. Over time, the room evolved into a portable box which served as a sketching tool for artists, and finally into to a box in which light sensitive chemicals replaced the sketching glass.

Answer 3

The term comes from The Greek word phos, photos - lightand graphos - writing. The word Photography means writing with light but most photographers claim they are painting with light!

This 'writing with light' or as us photographers say ' painting with light' was first reputed to have been termed by Sir John Herschel to William Henry Fox Talbot in letter in 1839. Herschel was an English astronomer who also devised the words negative and positive and I believe the word snapshot. A lot of his work involved chemistry which was the forerunner of the black and white processes. Henry Fox Talbot was the inventor of the negative positive process of photography. He was an English gentleman, chemist, mathematician, linguist and archeologist.

Answer 4

From New Latin camera obscura ("dark chamber"), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room; from Latin camera ("chamber or bedchamber"), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamara, "anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault").

Scientists in the medieval Middle East, such as Al-Haitham, made significant advances in optics by experimenting with pinhole cameras, adopting the Latin/Greek word into Arabic (AL QAMRA- القمرة) and further analyzing this phenomenon.

camera

1708, "vaulted building," from L. camera "vaulted room" (cf. It. camera, Sp. camara, Fr. chambre), from Gk. kamara "vaulted chamber," from PIE base *kam- "to arch." The word also was used early 18c. as a short form of Mod.L. camera obscura "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images

Answer 5

The word is from the Latin 'camera' and the Greek 'kamera'. They both mean a vault or chamber. The first photographic cameras were indeed large boxes or chambers and photographers were almost regarded as magicians. There was even a 'camera obscura' -a dark chamber where images were projected on to a screen.

Now they are commonplace and there is no mystery, but the name stuck.

Answer 6

Photograph is a combination of two Greek words photos and graphos. Photo means light and graphos means writing. hence, the definition means writing with light.

Answer 7

Camera is derived from the Latin or Greek word for vault or chamber.

Answer 8

In Latin, camera means "chamber" (room).

Answer 9

From arabic "al-Qamra"