eli5: How does a camera save what it captures?
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Depends on the technology in the camera.
If its a film camera, the light is focused on a strip of chemicals which are effectively ‘burnt’ by it and so capture the image.
A digital camera focuses that light onto a grid of photosensitive sensors, much like our eyes, and it records the data it gets from them.
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