Colin's camera?

[Calimora at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 90138

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dysis" <d.marchel at c...> wrote:
> I know I'm taking this back a few books, and that this has 
probably 
> been mentioned before, but how does Colin's camera work in 
Hogwarts? 
> No electrical things are supposed to work there, and Colin had an 
> electrical, Muggle camera. A friend proposed to charm his pictures 
> into moving, so I'm guessing that the camera would have to be a 
> Muggle one. I've always thought this was a contradiction, but 
never 
> really bothered to post it. Maybe it's just a Flint. Any 
suggestions?

I think that this is a flint, as modern cameras on batteries, which 
wouldn't work in Hogwarts. The movie version solves this with an old 
flash pan camera which doesn't involve electricity. On one of these 
cameras it's the flash ignition of a phospherous compound and the 
direct exposure of a photosensitive plate that captures the image. 
I'm fairly certain that JKR didn't intend for Colin to have an 
antique like this as the books state that developing the *film* in 
the proper potions causes the images to move. The ancient not 
electric cameras didn't have film per se, they had single shot 
slates.

~Calimora (Wow, it's been a while)