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camera obscura


means "dark room" in Latin. Created in the mid-Sixteenth century, this precursor of cameras we know today created projected light pictures within a dark room by permitting no light t [..]
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analog


generating or operating as a continuously variable "wave" of directly measurable quantities;
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circles of confusion


out-of-focus highlights; these are circular because the lens is circular
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convection currents


currents in air and water that are induced by temperature differential
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curator


a person in charge of organizing an exhibition
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depth of field


the area between the nearest and farthest points from the camera that are acceptably sharp in the focused image
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digital


binary storage of information as 1s and 0s
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fisheye lens


a lens with an extremely wide angle of view, as much as 180 degrees, and considerable barrel distortion (straight lines at the edges of a scene appear to curve around the center of the image)
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image


another term used to describe the picture in a photograph
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installation


a work of art, usually an environment, which is constructed within an exhibition space
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