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Bellows camera

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bellows \Bel"lows\, n. sing. & pl. [OE. bely, below, belly,
   bellows, AS. b[ae]lg, b[ae]lig, bag, bellows, belly. Bellows
   is prop. a pl. and the orig. sense is bag. See {Belly}.]
   An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate
   expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top,
   draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for
   various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or
   filling the pipes of an organ with wind.

   {Bellows camera}, in photography, a form of camera, which can
      be drawn out like an accordion or bellows.

   {Hydrostatic bellows}. See {Hydrostatic}.

   {A pair of bellows}, the ordinary household instrument for
      blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped
      boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a
      valve and tube.

Camera \Cam"e*ra\, n.; pl. E. {Cameras}, L. {Camerae}. [L.
   vault, arch, LL., chamber. See {Chamber}.]
   A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The
   {camera obscura} when used in photography. See {Camera}, and
   {Camera obscura}.

   {Bellows camera}. See under {Bellows}.

   {In camera} (Law), in a judge's chamber, that is, privately;
      as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open
      court in camera.

   {Panoramic}, or {Pantascopic}, {camera}, a photographic
      camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so
      as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to
      the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical
      slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. --Abney.
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