What is the literal meaning of Latin “camera obscura”?

crude painting

obscured view

dark chamber

dimmed light

“Camera” means “chamber” and “room” in Latin. Camera obscura was an optical device used in drawing, and an ancestor of modern photography. This is a source of the modern word camera.

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