Iconograph

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This page refers to the fictional gadget. For the design and study of religious art, see iconography

The iconograph is a fictional magic camera that appears in the books of British fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

Unlike a normal camera, the iconograph contains a tiny imp who quickly paints the pictures (also called iconographs) of the subject at hand. If it is too dim for the imps to see, salamanders can be used as a flashgun. It is first seen in The Colour of Magic owned by Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist. Although not explicitly stated in the books, they were presumably first used in the Agatean Empire, but have since become very popular in Ankh-Morpork.

In Moving Pictures, iconograph technology is used to make films, however this has been discontinued. In Men At Arms, the iconograph imp is referred to as a brownie, a pun referring to the Brownie camera.

In The Fifth Elephant, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch traffic division, under Sergeant Fred Colon, uses iconographs and stopwatches to record cart drivers who speed over bridges. This book also features an iconograph the size of a cigarette packet, with a tiny nano-imp, used by spies.

In The Truth, Otto Chriek is the iconographer for the newspaper The Ankh-Morpork Times, and invents methods of printing iconographs. In Monstrous Regiment, Chriek can transmit iconographs thousands of miles through the Clacks semaphore system.

See also: Minor Discworld concepts: Imp Technology

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