bellows camera

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bellows camera - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     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.
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  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.
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     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 camera, 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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