What is so obscure about a camera obscura?
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Nelson - Jetpacking from bed
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"Obscure" is derived from the Latin "osbscura" meaning "dark". "Camera" is Latin for "room" or "chamber". The camera obscura ("dark chamber") was an early form of optical imaging device where you sat in a small, dark room with a pinhole to let light in -- forming an image of the scene, upside-down on the far wall. Later photographic inventions retained the word "camera".
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Its obscure 'cause hardly anyone knows what one is, or what two are for that matter. Some people just don't even try to learn new things, they don't go out and actually talk to people, or even read books. They just stay in their rooms with the lights off, occaisionally peeking out thru the keyhole hoping to see something interesting. Oh what a twisted upside-down life the poor-souls lead.
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