Show word camera derived from renaissance T toy 0 y the primitive aryan root kam lakam meant to bend and the greek camera derived from it was used to denote anything with an arched cover or roof hence camo came the latin camera nie meaning aning a room and ultimately through french the english chamber A common toy of the rich in renaissance times was a dark room lett letting ilig in light only through a small lens billeb threw fhren an am inverted image of at the scene outside on the wall opposite it this was called a camera ob or dark room the problem for the inventors of photography was to make permanent the image in ID the camera obscura obscure ob 1 hence the instrument with which they ultimately accomplished complis hed lied it was called a 11 camera 11 exchange |