The mirror in an SLR camera directs the true image to the viewfinder. When you hit the shutter button, the mirror flips up so the actual image is projected onto the movie. When you click on the camera’s shutter release, the first curtain slides open, exposing the movie.
A camcorder is an electronic gadget combining a video camera and a video recorder. Although advertising materials may use the colloquial time period “camcorder”, the name on the package and manual is commonly “video camera recorder”. The frames are later played back in a ciné projector at a particular speed, known as …
