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Camera Obscura
CAMERA OBSCURA CAMERA OBSCURA. The camera obscura is an optical instrument that was the forerunner of the modern photographic camera. It can range in size from a small tabletop device to a room-size chamber. The term is Latin for 'dark room', which describes the simplest form of the camera... Read more |
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camera
camera lightproof box or container, usually fitted with a lens, which gathers incoming light and concentrates it so that it can be directed toward the film (in an optical camera) or the imaging device (in a digital camera) contained within. Today there are many different types of camera in use, all... Read more |
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Cameras
Camera Lens Background The camera lens is an invention that attempts to duplicate the operation of the human eye. Just like the eye, the lens sees an image, focuses it, and transmits its colors, sharpness, and brightness through the camera to the photographic... Read more |
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Photographer
Photographer A photographer is an artist and a part-time mathematician. As an artist, the photographer, who often learns the craft at a two- or four-year college, usually as part of an art program, takes pictures in places as varied as natural settings, wedding reception... Read more |
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accommodation
accommodation Optical instruments (such as microscopes, cameras, and some telescopes) work by passing light through the curved surfaces of lenses, where the light is bent (refracted) to bring it to focus at a particular point (e.g. on the film of a camera). Their power depends on the tightness of... Read more |
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Andre Kertesz
André Kertész , 1894-1985, American photographer, b. Budapest. His black-and-white modernist photographs often capture small, lyrical, and emotionally resonant moments while also formally exploiting the play of light and shadow, pattern, and depth of space. Kertész became a... Read more |
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camera lucida
camera lucida (Latin: ‘light chamber’). An apparatus used as an aid in drawing and copying, patented in 1807 by William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), a well-known man of science. It received its misleading name—for it is not a ‘chamber’ at... Read more |
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Smart Bombs
smart weapon missile or steerable bomb equipped with a laser , television , or satellite guidance system. Smart weapons, which use guidance systems that rely on external assistance, are distinguished from brilliant weapons, which are totally self-guided. In the case of a smart bomb with a laser... Read more |
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RED-LIGHT CAMERA DEBATE PERSISTS OVER EFFECTIVENESS OF SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
The city's controversial...light traffic cameras issued 46...Photo Red Light Unit can...operating one camera at $8...Photo Red Light Unit, after...through red lights or doing...California rolling ... |
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DRIVE TIME NIGHT ON THE TOWN IN FORD'S NEW FLEX A PURELY L.A. EXPERIENCE...
...ones wearing suits. We ogle...price of just over $28,000...mph in the city and 28 mpg...establish a target audience for...abundant natural light for all three...Our first stop was the Corey...in Culver City. ... |
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...Town Center over the weekend...The "cameras" in Cross...be able to stop traffic with a red light so they can...Many other cities and towns...nice to go to Target and not be...really going on over there in ... |
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