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Kodak No 2A Folding Hawkey...

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Elmo 70-125mm Pro-Zoom Pro...

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$19.50 USD

Cine-Kodak Duo Splicer Out...

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Kodak Brownie Special Six-...

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$60.00 USD

Antique Bendix Aviation 75...

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$79.00 USD

Polaroid Land Automatic 2...

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$55.00 USD

Yashica FX-2 Body and Yash...

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Kodak Series V Filters Vin...

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Yashica Auto Focus S Film ...

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Bell and Howell 323

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Vintage Minolta Disc K Cam...

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$15.00 USD

Westinghouse Flash Bulbs M...

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Agfa Silette Pronto Film C...

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Polaroid Model 900 Electri...

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Apollo Program Facilities ...

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$198.00 USD

GE Flashbulbs No 5 Rhenium...

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$22.00 USD

Brownie 8mm Movie Camera M...

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$43.00 USD

No 1a Autographic Kodak JR...

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1950s Honeywell Tilt-A-Mit...

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Bolex Paillard B8 Swiss Ca...

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$298.00 USD

GE Repairman Case Vacuum T...

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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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