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A spy camera with a lens that can see through a tiny hole. These camera are usually hidden.
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A camera that uses a very small hole, as if made by a pin instead of a lens, for light to enter and form an image on the film or other light-sensitive medium. See Pinhole camera.
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A camera without a lens, just a light tight box with a small hole at one end. (see Camera obscura)
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A (usually homemade) camera which uses the method of exposure to light through a pinhole to form an image upon film. The image is formed when light enters the pinhole, and is projected upside-down onto the negative.
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Camera with pinhole lens
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Perfect for covert surveillance, this quarter sized camera is nearly impossible to detect. With it's small size comes limited abilities though, primarily a small lens and limited zoom capabilities.
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a camera by deffinition
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a camera made without a lens
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a camera obscura , just like Alhazen's dark room
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a cardboard box with a hole punched in it that captures images on real film
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a (Equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the
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a kind of camera which follows the same principle as the camera obscura (it is, actually, a small camera obscura)
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a slow camera in a fast world
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a small, light-tight box with a black interior and a tiny hole in the centre of one
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a small, light-tight can or box with a black interior and a
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an optical device using a small hole to project an image into a darkened box or room.
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A simple camera with a small hole instead of a lens, sometimes made with a pin. Can be easily constructed from shoe boxes or biscuit tins, and with experimentation can produce images of surprisingly high optical quality.
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Camera without a lens, but with a small hole of about 0.02 inches (0.5mm) or less.
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The simplest camera you can use to take a photograph. A pinhole camera is a closed light-tight box with a pinhole on one side. Light enters through the hole and projects an inverted and reversed image on photographic film or paper placed inside the box, opposite the hole. Close
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A camera with a fixed aperture made by poking a hole in a piece of metal. Usually made from a small enclosed container such as an oatmeal box or small tin.
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camera without a lens which uses a very small hole pierced in one end to allow light to pass through and form an image on the back of the camera which can be covered by film.
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Camera with a tiny aperture that forms an image without use of a lens.
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A pinhole camera is a camera without a conventional glass lens. An extremely small hole in a very thin material can focus light by confining all rays from a scene through a single point. In order to produce a reasonably clear image, the aperture has to be a small pinhole on the order of 0.5 mm (0.02 inches) or less.
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