camera: meaning and definitions

An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film, plate, or sensor.

The part of a television transmitting apparatus that receives the primary image on a light-sensitive cathode-ray tube and transforms it into electrical impulses.

Camera obscura.

A judge's private chamber.

in camera In private.

off camera Outside the field of view of a television or movie camera.

on camera Within the field of view of a television or movie camera.