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habitacion

16:27 Nov 17, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
Spanish term or phrase: habitacion
1600, durante el siglo XVII, la cámara que hasta ese momento era una habitación como tal se transforma en un instrumento portátil de madera. Johann Zahn transformó esa caja en un aparato parecido al usado en los principios de la fotografía.

...it was a room just as it becomes a portable wooden instrument?

habitacion como tal se transforma just mades no sense to me especially with the shift to present tense. Can anyone translate those five words for me?

Thanks a lot.
Allison Doan


Summary of answers provided
4 +1chamber
Jenni Lukac (X)


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
chamber


Explanation:
The original was a "camera oscura" Photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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So the invention of photography was really concerned with finding a means to fix and retain the image in the camera obscura. This in fact occurred first using the ...
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Morell had turned his classroom into a camera obscura, a dark chamber, the Latin name for perhaps the earliest known imaging device and the ancestor of the ...

Jenni Lukac (X)
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Native speaker of: English
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agree  Peter Riccomini: Yes, or 'room' simply
16 days
  -> Thanks, Peter, either one will do, but I used "chamber" to make it clear that it wasn't the space where photos are developed and printed.
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