camera obscura

     

The camera obscura (Lat. ark chamber) was an optical device used in drawing, and one of the ancestral threads leading to the invention of photography. In English, today's photographic devices are still known as "cameras".

Trivia about camera obscura

  • Many consider this, whose name is New Latin for "dark chamber", the earliest form of the camera
  • Aristotle made a simple type of this "camera" using a hole in a screen to create a simply-viewed image of the sun
  • This box whose name is Latin for "dark chamber" was used to produce large images before photography
  • It's believed that Vermeer used this image-making device to help transfer images to canvas

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