A camera is a device used to record images.
The word camera derives from the Latin camăra , although its most remote antecedent leads to a Greek word. The term has multiple uses and meanings: one of them allows the word to be used to describe the main environment or space of a home . For example: "The man rests in his chamber" , "There were more than twenty paintings in that chamber where luxury abounded" , "A fire destroyed the main chamber of the house" .
In the realm of royalty, it must be emphasized that there is a profession called valet . Specifically, this can be defined as a servant of a king who is in charge, among other things, of helping the aforementioned monarch dress.
Chamber as a legislative body
Written with an initial capital letter ( Chamber ), on the other hand, the concept refers to a body or organization in the legislative sphere of a representative government : "The Chamber of Senators has decorated the former soccer player for his contributions to national sports," "Incident in the Chamber of Deputies: three legislators were injured after a fight broke out in the middle of the session .
In the case of Spain we have to emphasize that the Senate is also known by the name of the Upper House while the Lower House is the Congress of Deputies . The two bodies that shape the Cortes Generales are a constitutional body whose members represent the Spanish people and exercise national sovereignty, control the action of the Government and have legislative power.
The internal space of a firearm, which is intended for loading, is called the chamber.
a meeting
Chamber, likewise, is also accepted as a synonym for meeting , in relation to the call or meeting of individuals who intend to discuss a certain matter or work together.
"The footwear chamber announced its rejection of the new tax announced by the Government" y "Raúl Schiaretti is the new president of the San Felipe Chamber of Commerce" son expresiones que muestran este uso.
Camera as a device for recording images
A camera, on the other hand, is a device or device that allows you to capture, record and reproduce images . Depending on the services and technologies that each piece of equipment includes, it is possible to speak, therefore, of a photographic camera , television camera , film camera , etc.: "My mother gave me a new camera for the holidays," " It didn't take long for the cameras to arrive at the scene .
In the case of photography cameras we find a great variety of them. Among them are the compact ones, the SLR, the APS or the digital ones, which are the ones that in recent years have managed to be a real boom among the population around the world. And these do not need the traditional film but instead save the snapshots on a memory card that allows you to store a very large number of them.
It must also be emphasized that a camera is also known precisely as any professional in the television field who is dedicated to using the very device that gives it its name. Its function is to use it to capture everything that happens around it and thus offer the corresponding video to viewers of a program in question, whether it is a news program or an entertainment space.
Other uses of the term
Although we have already mentioned several uses, there are still many meanings to be described since, for example, the space reserved for loading inside a firearm is also called a chamber: «The police found a revolver with three bullets in it. the chamber» , «The gun did not have any projectile in the chamber» .
The tube can be, lastly, that tire ring that is made of rubber and has a valve that allows injections of pressurized air: "The tube punctured and we had to stop."