Show 1 word camera derived prom from renaissance toy the primitive aryan root kam ham meant to bend and the greek camera derived from it was used to denote anything with an arched cover or roof hence came the latin camera meaning a room and ultimately through french the english chamber A bommon common toy of the rich in renaissance times was a dark room letting in light only through a small ten lent which threw an Inver inverted fed image of oc the scene outside on the wall opposite IL it this was called a camera ob or dark room the problem for or tile the inventors of photography was to make permanent the image in the camera obscure obscura ob hence the insera ment with which they the ultimately accomplished complis hed it was called a camera exchange hopeless sorrow borrow te Is without wisdom |