Our photo, film and video cameras all have a common ancestor: the camera obscura.
The principle
The light from the outside world falls through a small hole onto the opposite wall of a room. This creates an upside-down image that can be viewed directly or on a screen.
Since the 16th century, a lens made the image much brighter, and around 1750, painters such as the Venetian Canaletto used the camera obscura to sketch the perspectives for his famous cityscapes. When the Frenchman Nicéphore Nièpce directed the image onto a light-sensitive plate for the first time in 1836, the camera had been invented.
Our sturdy, magnificent camera obscura, like Canaletto's, has a high-speed lens and a mirror that straightens the image and projects it from below through a transparent window onto a 16 x 16 cm sheet of tracing paper. There it can not only be viewed, but also copied.
A notice!
This kit is a model to understand the camera obscura principle and to view the image on a ground glass screen.
Perfect for school or craft workshops. Without further modifications, it is possible to take photographs, but not to use with film or photo paper.
