The name "camera" comes from camera obscura, which means "dark room." Used as an early drawing aid, the artist would stand in a light-sealed room or box with a hole punched in it. Light would enter ...

The camera obscura is an old-school optical device predating photography. Comprised of a box with a magnifying lens or hole on one end and an angled reflective surface inside, camera obscuras can ...

A camera obscura and camera lucida work using different principles, but they both make use of mirrors to let us see the world in a different way. The camera lucida used to be a favorite tool of ...

You don’t always need a lens to see a picture, you can use a pinhole camera instead. A pinhole camera uses a small hole that allows light to pass through to allow your eye to see an image. This was ...

Most readers will have some idea of how a camera works, with a lens placed in front of a piece of film or an electronic sensor, and the distance between the two adjusted until the images is in focus.

“Step inside and see the world anew,” promises the silver and weirdly-shaped tiny building behind the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary. And it delivers on its promise: a new view of Small ...

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