The Camera The camera is defined as an apparatus for taking photographs or film or television pictures. It is a lightproof box through which an image is focused and recorded on film. Today there are many different types of cameras in use, all of them more or less advanced versions of the first camera. Nearly all of them are made up of the same basic parts: -A body (the lightproof box) -A lens and a shutter to control the amount of light reaching the light-sensitive medium -A viewfinder to frame the scene -A focusing mechanism. Still Cameras Focusing and Composing the Scene All cameras use a lens for focusing, except for pinhole cameras,....

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