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* | * '''manku kumfa'''? | ||
** The words mean literally "dark room", but although a darkroom is a dark room, it is not a camera obscura. | ** The words mean literally "dark room", but although a darkroom is a dark room, it is not a camera obscura. | ||
* '''manku kacma'''? | |||
{{gl|kacma|x1 is a camera/photographic equipment recording illumination type x2 images to media x3}} | {{gl|kacma|x1 is a camera/photographic equipment recording illumination type x2 images to media x3}} | ||
A camera obscura is a camera which, by direct optical means, displays its image rather than recording it. One translation is '''kacma fi zi'o'''. | A camera obscura is a camera which, by direct optical means, displays its image rather than recording it. One translation is '''kacma fi zi'o'''. | ||
* The [[lujvo]] for ''kacma fi zi'o'' is ''zilcibykacma'' | * The [[lujvo]] for '''kacma fi zi'o''' is '''zilcibykacma''' | ||
*[[jezrax]]: | *[[jezrax]]: | ||
**We don't need to make up Lojban words to exactly match English words. A camera obscura where you walk in and the image is projected on a wall could be a '''kumfa kacma''' (''room camera'') or a '''kacma je kumfa''' (''camera and room''). The kind used by artists to help in sketching could be a ''drawing aid'', and so on. There are many ways to say any given thing; choose one that says what you want. | **We don't need to make up Lojban words to exactly match English words. A camera obscura where you walk in and the image is projected on a wall could be a '''kumfa kacma''' (''room camera'') or a '''kacma je kumfa''' (''camera and room''). The kind used by artists to help in sketching could be a ''drawing aid'', and so on. There are many ways to say any given thing; choose one that says what you want. | ||
Latest revision as of 08:58, 3 October 2014
- manku kumfa?
- The words mean literally "dark room", but although a darkroom is a dark room, it is not a camera obscura.
- manku kacma?
- kacma = x1 is a camera/photographic equipment recording illumination type x2 images to media x3
A camera obscura is a camera which, by direct optical means, displays its image rather than recording it. One translation is kacma fi zi'o.
- The lujvo for kacma fi zi'o is zilcibykacma
- jezrax:
- We don't need to make up Lojban words to exactly match English words. A camera obscura where you walk in and the image is projected on a wall could be a kumfa kacma (room camera) or a kacma je kumfa (camera and room). The kind used by artists to help in sketching could be a drawing aid, and so on. There are many ways to say any given thing; choose one that says what you want.
Common error
Not kacma fi no da since that would be anything (such as a tree) which has nothing to record images on kacma fi noda!).
See also discussion of kacma fi noda.