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Contents 1 Queries 2 How has the camera affected peoples lives 3 Astronomy cameras 4 More to it 5 Motion Picture Cameras 6 Move to camera (conventional)?

[edit] Queries

Ericd, out of curiosity, why are you splitting this into still camera and movie camera? They're far more alike than they are different; even if specifics are to be treated in separate articles, IMHO the basics ought to go in the main article. So far, the contents of still camera apply 100% to movie cameras. --Brion 22:51 Sep 6, 2002 (UCT)

Mainly to create some reaction and reflection because the text of the article was only referring to still cameras.

Well then, I hope you won't mind when I move the text back and expand it a bit. --Brion

Of course not ! This has to be expanded and structured.

Well, I put in a start. Feel free to help munge it into shape! --Brion

Have look at Camera types I believe this will have to be back in the main article sometime.

It wouldn't hurt; though there's currently a trend to break long lists out into separate pages. Maybe just put it in still camera? --Brion

Let's get some history in here. When was this thing invented for example? --arex

Excellent idea, I've added a link to the first photograph, which I guess means it was also the first camera. RichardB20.

[edit] How has the camera affected peoples lives

wanting to know how the camera has affected lives from when they were first invented to how they affect people now

Well, in my uneducated opinion of course, now people have ways to document important times in their life, or others'. Photos and videos have a lot of sentimental value to many people, and it's one of the first things I think that people would save from their homes in the case of a fire, if they didn't have other living beings in the home with them. Photos might help people remember faces, and they also preserve what people who have passed away look like. It captures a moment. It shows history and memories and a minor essence of who people are. 65.191.82.234 00:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Astronomy cameras

http://www.wateccameras.com are used in Astronomy. 0.0003lux for watching the still sky through a Telescope. 0.003 is about the limit for use in security surveilance applications. Any lux value higher results in Image smearing. How does one add this information to the wiki without it coming accross as advertising - but purely as a technical fact?

I added http://www.pulnix.com and http://www.wateccameras.com to the camera brands section. It is merely a fact that Watec just like Samsung are camera manufacturers. But this was flagged by the moderator as advertising. How would one then state the fact that Watec makes cameras without it coming accross as advertising? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.11.241.194 (talk • contribs) .

Firstly, this article tends to focus more on cameras for still photography. The cameras you are talking about are some kind of video camera. Secondly, all the other links in that section are internal links to other articles. Wikipedia places some strict rules on external links such as the ones you tried to add. In particular, external links should be informative and provide further information *about* the subject of the article. The two links you provide appear to merely be the sites of camera makers, purely commercial in nature. They may be perfectly fine, upstanding companies, but Wikipedia is not a mere collection of external links. Perhaps the only place those links would be acceptable under the rules would be if those manufacturers had their own articles, and that's unlikely given the rules on notability of Wikipedia articles. So it does not look like your two links have a place on Wikipedia, sorry. If people are looking for these types of cameras, I'm sure Google would be a better tool than Wikipedia. --Imroy 11:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More to it

There's loads of stuff that should be covered in this article. The myths (stealing souls), the impact on the world, the impact on lives, the impact cellphone cameras have had on life etc. Someone should add them :) - don't look at me --Energman 11:48, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps a "Cameras in Culture" article? —Nahum Reduta 21:18, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Motion Picture Cameras

Seems the article so far only deals with still cameras. What about those designed for movies? Or what existing article is it listed under (so it can be linked here)? —Nahum Reduta 21:18, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move to camera (conventional)?

I undid this silly move. The article is about cameras. Digital is more conventional these days. Dicklyon (talk) 03:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, thank you for undoing it. There is absolutely no need to make article titles more complicated than they have to be. It doesn't matter what new technologies come about, there should always be an article simply titled "camera". LonelyMarble (talk) 12:32, 18 March 2008 (UTC)