Definition of Photographic camera

1. Noun. Equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Photographic Camera

photogrammetrical
photogrammetries
photogrammetry
photograms
photograph
photograph album
photographable
photographed
photographer
photographer's model
photographeress
photographeresses
photographers
photographic
photographic artist
photographic camera (current term)
photographic emulsion
photographic equipment
photographic film
photographic interpretation
photographic interpretations
photographic material
photographic memories
photographic memory
photographic paper
photographic plate
photographic print
photographica
photographical
photographically

Literary usage of Photographic camera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1872)
"He discarded the telescope and employed the ordinary photographic camera. The results were most satisfactory. The eclipsed sun was indeed partially hidden ..."

2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... yet only measuring two inches in length, and now detectives have managed to find a photographic camera so small as to be contained within the limits of ..."

3. A College Text-book of Physics by Arthur Lalanne Kimball (1917)
"photographic camera.—In the simplest form of photographic camera a single convergent lens forms a real image of a distant object on the sensitive plate. ..."

4. General Physics: An Elementary Text-book for Colleges by Henry Crew (1919)
"A photographic camera, which is perhaps the simplest and best known of all ... Section of photographic camera. The second step is to cover the lens so that ..."

5. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century by Agnes Mary Clerke (1893)
"The telescope has been supplemented by the spectroscope and the photographic camera. Now this really involves a whole world of change. ..."

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