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Camera Obscura. by Brianna Abbey. Camera Obscura. An optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen Drawing and Entertainment Led to the invention of photography and the camera. The Device Itself. A box or room Hole in one side How it works.
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Camera Obscura by Brianna Abbey
Camera Obscura • An optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen • Drawing and Entertainment • Led to the invention of photography and the camera
The Device Itself • A box or room • Hole in one side • How it works
History of Camera Obscura • Has been known to scholars since Aristotle and Mozi • Mozi referred to it as the “collecting plate” or the “locked treasure room” • Aristotle understood the optical principle of the pinhole camera • He compared it to “sunlight travelling through small openings between the leaves of a tree.”
Facts • Leonardo Da Vinci compared the camera to an eye. • The forerunner of the modern photographic camera • Can range in size from a small tabletop device to a room-size chamber
Facts continued • The term is latin for ‘dark room’ • The term was first used by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler in the early 17th century • They improved the image quality by adding a convex lens in the 16th century
Resources • http://brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html • http://www.obscurajournal.com/ • http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/05/camera-obscura/oneill-text