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The term camera relates almost uniquely to those mechanical and technological devices created by man to record images both in movement as still from what happens around, from reality. However, the origin of the term did not always have to do with this. On the contrary, camera comes from the Greek word kamara, a term that referred to those main spaces or rooms in a house (hence the idea of ​​a camera still refers us from time to time to that of a room or bedroom). Therefore, hence, as the technological device possesses a dark space on which the picture to record, receive that name.

When we talk about the camera as an element created to portray different aspects of reality in a static (photos) or dynamics (videos), we must point out that it would not be until the second half of the 19th century that the human being would have the first models of cameras. Although technological advances related to the driving of light existed since ancient times, the first cameras would not be developed until the end of the nineteenth century.

The cameras must always have some basic elements, including the lens occupies a leading place. The lens is responsible for capturing the light of the element to be portrayed and focusing it so that, through the appropriate device, the image is printed both on film paper or on the memory digital camera in question. While still cameras can take only one image at a time, video cameras are capable of taking numerous images in the form of sequence which then, when observed, portray the original movement.

Today, both photographic cameras and video cameras have numerous elements and functions that aim to provide users with the best quality of image. While the quality of the image itself has been improved, features such as red-eye removal, face recognition, automatic flash and automatic accommodation of light and shadow characteristics in the image.