Keystone 16mm Viewer No V 16

Old Keystone Viewer for Keystone K 160 and K 161 Projectors. The viewer body is in good condition, the lenses need a cleaning, there appears to be no scratches.The Keystone Camera Company was an American manufacturer of consumer grade photographic equipment based in Boston, MA starting out around 1910. During the 1930s Keystone made a line of economical albeit durable 16mm movie cameras. some of these Keystone 16mm cameras are still in use today. Their products also included 8mm Movie Cameras and 126 / 110 film cameras as well as other Cine, Disc, Instant and 35mm cameras.

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What is a Camera Obscura?

The camera obscura (Latin; camera = vaulted chamber | obscura = dark, thus darkened chamber or room) is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography. The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved. The image can be projected onto paper, and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation. Using mirrors, as in the 18th century overhead version (illustrated in the History section below), it is possible to project a right-side-up image. Another more portable type is a box with an angled mirror projecting onto tracing paper placed on the glass top, the image being upright as viewed from the back. As a pinhole is made smaller, the image gets sharper, but the projected image becomes dimmer. With too small a pinhole the sharpness again becomes worse due to diffraction. Some practical camera obscuras use a lens rather than a pinhole because it allows a larger aperture, giving a usable brightness while maintaining focus.

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