The camera is the image-forming device, and photographic plate<\/a>, photographic film<\/a> or a silicon<\/a> electronic image sensor<\/a> is the sensing medium. The respective recording medium can be the plate or film itself, or a digital magnetic or electronic memory.[29]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n Photographers control the camera and lens to \u00abexpose\u00bb the light recording material to the required amount of light to form a \u00ablatent image<\/a>\u00bb (on plate or film) or RAW file<\/a> (in digital cameras) which, after appropriate processing, is converted to a usable image. Digital cameras<\/a> use an electronic image sensor based on light-sensitive electronics such as charge-coupled device<\/a> (CCD) or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor<\/a> (CMOS) technology. The resulting digital image is stored electronically, but can be reproduced on a paper.<\/p>\n The camera (or ‘camera obscura<\/a>‘) is a dark room or chamber from which, as far as possible, all light is excluded except the light that forms the image. The subject being photographed, however, must be illuminated. Cameras can range from small to very large, a whole room that is kept dark while the object to be photographed is in another room where it is properly illuminated. This was common for reproduction photography of flat copy when large film negatives were used (see Process camera<\/a>).<\/p>\n As soon as photographic materials became \u00abfast\u00bb (sensitive) enough for taking candid or surreptitious pictures, small \u00abdetective\u00bb cameras were made, some actually disguised as a book or handbag or pocket watch (the Ticka<\/i> camera) or even worn hidden behind an Ascot<\/a> necktie with a tie pin that was really the lens.<\/p>\n The movie camera<\/a> is a type of photographic camera which takes a rapid sequence of photographs on recording medium. In contrast to a still camera, which captures a single snapshot at a time, the movie camera takes a series of images, each called a \u00abframe\u00bb. This is accomplished through an intermittent mechanism. The frames are later played back in a movie projector at a specific speed, called the \u00abframe rate\u00bb (number of frames per second). While viewing, a person’s eyes and brain merge the separate pictures together to create the illusion of motion.[30]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The word \u00abphotography\u00bb was created from the Greek<\/a> roots \u03c6\u03c9\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2 (ph\u014dtos<\/i>), genitive of \u03c6\u1ff6\u03c2 (ph\u014ds<\/i>), \u00ablight\u00bb[2]<\/a><\/sup> and \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae (graph\u00e9<\/i>) \u00abrepresentation by means of lines\u00bb or \u00abdrawing\u00bb,[3]<\/a><\/sup> together meaning \u00abdrawing with light\u00bb.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently. Hercules Florence<\/a>, a French painter and inventor living in Campinas, Brazil, used the French form of the word, photographie<\/i>, in private notes which a Brazilian photography historian believes were written in 1834.[5]<\/a><\/sup> Johann von Maedler<\/a>, a Berlin astronomer, is credited in a 1932 German history of photography as having used it in an article published on 25 February 1839 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung<\/i>.[6]<\/a><\/sup> Both of these claims are now widely reported but apparently neither has ever been independently confirmed as beyond reasonable doubt. Credit has traditionally been given to Sir John Herschel<\/a> both for coining the word and for introducing it to the public. His uses of it in private correspondence prior to 25 February 1839 and at his Royal Society<\/a> lecture on the subject in London on 14 March 1839 have long been amply documented and accepted as settled facts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Technical aspects The camera is the image-forming device, and photographic plate, photographic film or a silicon electronic image sensor is the sensing medium. The respective recording medium can be the plate or film itself, or a digital magnetic or electronic memory.[29] Photographers control the camera and lens to \u00abexpose\u00bb the light recording material to the … <\/p>\nEtymology<\/h3>\n