Oh my word Camera, Chimera

“If atheism is used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.” –Leslie Stephen, British historian and mountaineer and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

Imagine a world without a camera (to take photographs)! No photographs of our world around us, our predecessor, and no selfies too, however narcissistic taking selfies could be.

Camera! What an invention! And they continue to be invented in smaller and smaller sizes to such an extent today we have invisible cameras (in pens and buttons) and CCTC cameras in the public places. Film rolls have almost become outdated; this is the era of digital photographs from photo studios to professional cameramen to personal users. Photographs, photo studios and camera manufacturing are more than a billion-rupee industry.

Camera is an apparatus to take photographs, or moving film. Cameras have a basic design of lightproof container with a lens opposite a light-sensitive surface. The 35 mm Single Lens Reflex (SLR) is the popular camera as enables the photographer and the camera to see the subject in exactly the same way.

A man or a woman with passion for photography, and with camera in hand in a country like India…what else, umpteen subjects to record for the posterity.

Photographers (still photography) and cameramen (cameramen) are the backbone for a newspaper and television channel respectively. Without them (men and women), the reach and the quality of journalism will be poor.

Chimera is a noun.

Chimera is pronounced as ‘ky-meer-a’.

The alternative spelling of chimera is chimaera.

According to Greek mythology, chimera is a fire-breathing female monster with ead of a lion, a goat’s body with udders and a serpent’s tail. Chimera = Lion + goat + serpent. Chimera is an offspring of Typhon and Echnida, in Greek mythology, which is a represented as vomiting flames and killed by Bellerophon in Lycea.

Chimera is a grotesque product, a fantastic product of the imagination.

Chimera is a bogey

Chimera is a fabulous beast with parts taken from various animals.

Chimera comes from the Greek word khimaira meaning she-goat.

Other variants of chimera are chimeric (something imaginary, fanciful), chimeral and chimerical (adjectives), and chimerically (adverb).

Have you seen any chimerical paintings in the country?

In genetics, chimeric pertains to a genetic chimera meaning an organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes.

Chimera also refers to a gargoyle but without a spout for water.

Kovuuri G Reddy