Video camera

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/video-camera

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is a video camera and how does it work?A video camera captures moving pictures by focusing light on a sensor that turns it into electrical signals or digital data, which can be stored and played back.
2. Who invented the first electronic video camera and when?John Logie Baird invented the first electronic video camera in 1927, a big step away from mechanical systems.

Image Sensor: The electronic component within a camera that captures light and converts it into digital data representing an image.
Pixel: The smallest addressable element in a raster image or the smallest controllable element of a picture on a screen.
Frame Rate: The number of still images (frames) displayed per second to create the illusion of motion in a video.