Movie Camera

[technoguy]

The movie camera is a type of photographic camera which takes a rapid sequence of photographs on strips of film; once developed this film can be projected as a motion picture. In contrast to a still camera which captures a single snapshot at a time, the movie camera takes a series of images, each called a "frame". This is accomplished through an intermittent mechanism. The frames are later played back in a movie projector at a specific speed, called the "frame rate" (number of frames per second) to give the illusion of motion. Human eyes and brain merge the separate pictures together to generate the illusion, a phenomenon called the "persistence of vision".