The Camera ObscuraThe Camera Obscura (Latin; camera for "chamber/room", obscura for "dark", together "darkened chamber/room". Latin is an old language and lots of words in English language come from Latin.
Camera obscura is an optical device that projects (shows) an image of everything around (surroundings) on a screen. The image is shown upside down like in pinhole. The light goes through a hole like in pinhole camera. Camera obscura was before pinhole. |
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