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Like photometry, and spectroscopy, and videography, and camera obscura, and a hundred other things. A camera is a tool for redirecting photons to create an imag
by addaon 2y ago
Like photometry, and spectroscopy, and videography, and camera obscura, and a hundred other things. A camera is a tool for redirecting photons to create an image of a scene on a 2D plane. So many more things than just creating durable images by recording the spatial distribution of light on a plane (photography) are possible with such a tool.
- throwaway290 2y ago> A camera is a tool for redirecting photons to create an image of a scene on a 2D plane. This is photography. You are thinking about art but photography also means technical process.