Camera

German Meaning

Kamera

Fotoapparat

Apparat

Photoapparat

English Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Camera obscura.
  4. A judge's private chamber.
  5. in camera In private.
  6. off camera Outside the field of view of a television or movie camera.
  7. on camera Within the field of view of a television or movie camera.