Camera - Navo

• The term camera comes from the word camera obscura (Latin for "dark chamber"), an early mechanism for projecting images.
• A camera is an optical instrument that records images that can be stored directly, transmitted to another location, or both.
• In the fifth century B.C., the Chinese philosopher Mo Ti noted that a pinhole can form an inverted and focused image, when light passes through the hole and into a dark area.
• The first photographic camera developed for commercial manufacture was a daguerreotype camera, built by Alphonse Giroux.
• The lens of a camera captures the light from the subject and brings it to a focus on the film or detector.
• The first camera utilizing digital technologies to capture and store images was developed by Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975.