Camera /(?)/

Cam·e·ra

Camera

n.

pl. Cameras, Camerae

  1. A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.

Phrases & Compounds
Bellows camera
See under Bellows.
In camera
in a judge's chamber, that is, privately; as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera.
Panoramic camera
a photographic camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes.