+154 If cameras with video are called video cameras then why aren't cameras with picture called picture cameras? amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

.....Because ALL cameras take pictures....I mean fucking DUH. Did you actually tax that little brain of yours thinking about this?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Cameras originally took pictures.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Definition of camera: equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) Cameras were originally made TO take pictures, as people above me have kindly pointed out.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They are. Ever heard "Photo camera"?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because they're called cameras.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It would just be redundant to say picture camera..

by Anonymous 13 years ago