This '''camera''' was an old-fashioned [[Muggle]] camera (Argus C3 Machmatic) that [[Colin Creevey]] used to take pictures of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] to show [[Colin Creevey's father|his father]], who was a milkman. The camera ran off the [[magic]]al atmosphere, so it would not cease to function.<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]].</ref> When Colin was [[Petrification|petrified]] due to him looking at [[Salazar Slytherin's basilisk]] through his camera, the film within was burnt and melted. It was lost on the school grounds during the [[1995–1996 school year]], but eventually found by [[Harry Potter|Harry]], on an offset in [[The Quad]] near the [[The Quad battlements|battlements]], who gave it to him.