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Webcam
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(WEB CAMera) A video camera that is used to send periodic images or continuous frames to a Web site for display. Webcam software typically captures the images as JPEG or MPEG files and uploads them to the Web server. There are countless Webcam sites on the Internet that have cameras pointed at virtually everything. They provide videos of people going about their daily work as well as offering the online equivalent of the live "peep show."

(World-Wide Web, hardware, video)webcam - (World-Wide Web camera) Any video camera whose output is available for viewing via the Internet or an intranet. Typically a webcam would be a slow-scan CCD video camera connected to a video capture card in a computer. Images from the camera are captured periodically and made available on a web page. In 1999 there are hundreds of webcams in operation around the world showing everything from bedrooms to traffic.



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95), On Junie's family's Hawaiian vacation she is given a real camera so she can keep a photo journal of her trip but some aspects of the trip just can't be captured on film as a series of hilarious disasters beset Junie and clan.
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The drawings incorporate the interviewees' comments on "personal, regional, and international" issues and often address notions of exclusivity and belonging and the status of the viewer in relation to the institution: An image of a head with a closed-circuit security camera where its brain should be sits next to a real camera, while elsewhere we see a crowd fixated on a painting's label while pointedly ignoring the work itself.
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My first real camera, too, a Nikon F2, I've still got the lenses.
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