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PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)
Synonyms:
camera; photographic camera
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("photographic camera" is a kind of...):
photographic equipment (equipment used by a photographer)
Meronyms (parts of "photographic camera"):
sprocket (roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through)
shutter (a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure)
cartridge; magazine (a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required)
hood; lens hood (a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera)
finder; view finder; viewfinder (optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest)
diaphragm; stop (a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens)
delayed action (a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture)
camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)
aperture (a device that controls amount of light admitted)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photographic camera"):
box camera; box Kodak (a simple camera shaped like a rectangular box)
candid camera (a miniature camera with a fast lens)
digital camera (a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for later reproduction)
flash camera (a camera with a photoflash attachment)
cine-camera; motion-picture camera; movie camera (a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession)
point-and-shoot camera (a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus)
Polaroid camera; Polaroid Land camera (a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds)
portrait camera (a camera with a portrait lens)
reflex camera (camera that allows the photographer to view and focus the exact scene being photographed)
