A device used by early artists (centuries before Christ) to display a scene on the wall of an otherwise-darkened room so that it could be more-easily copied. In a manner similar to the pinhole camera, a small hole placed in an opposite wall permitted light to enter the room (the "camera"), and the scene outside became transmitted inside, and was shown inverted on the rear wall or sometimes on a screen. The camera obscura is the origin of the modern camera.

Drawing device, consisting of a darkened box with a hole or lens, that casts a reduced image of an outside object onto a ground glass screen or a sheet of paper for tracing.

An early precursor of the modern-day camera. The camera obscura (French: dark room) began as a crude device where a small hole in a wall would act as a lens having a very small aperture, projecting an inverted image on the opposite wall of a darkened room. First mentioned by Aristotle in the fourth century BC, it eventually developed as a projection method used by artist as a drawing aid.

For hundreds of years the camera obscura was a curiosity, consisting of a darkened room with a small hole in one of its walls; a reduced inverted image of the world outside was projected through the hole onto a whitewashed wall opposite; the phenomenon was noted by the Arabs as early as the eleventh century. By the end of the sixteenth century Italian academics had fitted a converging lens into the hole which produced a much brighter and sharper picture. Artists began to use a collapsible, portable version to reproduce perspective in their landscapes and portraits. (see Pinhole camera)

the origin of the present day camera, in its simplest form consists of a dark box and a small hole on one side.

An early form of camera consisting of a darkened box with a hole-or lens-in one side which casts an image of an object onto a ground glass screen or sheet of paper. The image was then traced rather than recorded photographically.

the "Dark Chamber" or box that was used as a type of camera in the very early days.

A dark room with a small hole in one side through which an inverted image of the view outside is projected onto the opposite wall, screen or mirror and the image is then traced; The forerunner of the modern camera-a tool for recording an optical image accurately.

A darkened room or building fitted with a specially designed lens which projects an outside image onto a screen or table inside.

A darkened boxlike device in which images of external objects, received through an aperture, are exhibited in their natural colors on a surface arranged to receive them.

a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface

a box or a darkened room with a lens or hole through which the image of an external object is projected onto the opposite inside wall

a device in which the real image of an object is received through a small opening or lens and focused in natural color onto a facing surface, according to Ask

a dim room (of any size) with a hole (or holes) that allow light to enter and project an upside-down image of the outside world onto an interior surface, the simplest of optical principles

a lens fitted into a revolving cowling in the roof

a system used to project an image onto a surface

a very ancient imaging apparatus that predates the invention of photography and consists of a darkened enclosure with a pinhole on one side

Derived from the latin words meaning "darkened room," the camera obscura dates back to ancient Greece. The original camera obscura was a large, walk-in room pierced with a single, small hole in one of its four walls. Light rays from a bright object outside of the camera obscura enter the small hole and an inverted image appears on the opposite wall. Portable versions of the camera obscura were eventually created and used as an artist aid.

An optical contrivance for projecting the image of an object or scene on a surface, from which it is traced and thus is more accurately reproduced than by being drawn freehand.

Ancestor of the modern camera, this was originally a draftsman's tool to facilitate life drawing. The simple form of the apparatus consisted of an oblong box fitted at one end with a lens that could be adjusted to focus on an image. Inside the box, at the other end, a mirror was attached at a 45 degree angle, and this mirror projected the image up onto a ground-glass screen that had been set into the top of the box. It was on this ground glass screen that the image could be traced on thin paper. (Baldwin, 18)

means "dark room" in Latin. Created in the mid-Sixteenth century, this precursor of cameras we know today created projected light pictures within a dark room by permitting no light to enter the space except for that passing through a small hole. The light rays entering through the tiny hole would land upon the opposite wall or surface to create full-color images that are upside-down and backwards, showing the scene outside the room. diagrams

From the Latin "dark chamber." A camera obscura took on several forms, it could be darkened box or room with a small opening on one side. Light rays enter through the small opening and form an image of the scene outside. In its box form it is sometimes called a pinhole camera.

A darkened enclosure where light passes through a lens pinhole and an upside-down image is seen on the opposite surface.

(room of dark) The earliest form of a camera, this was essentially a dark room or box with a small hole which allowed light, projecting an inverted imaged onto a wall; used since the mid 16th century by artists to trace nature.

Latin, meaning "dark room." Light entering through a small hole in one wall forms on the opposite wall an image of the scene outside. The image is upside down and backwards. A camera obscura can be room-sized or hand-held. Camera Obscura (table model) c. 1820 Close

System of lenses and mirrors from the 16th to the 17th centuries functioning as a primitive camera such that artists could project a scene onto the painting surface.

origin of the present day camera. In its simplest form it consisted of a darkened room with a small hole in one wall. Light rays could pass through the hole to transmit on to a screen, and inverted image of the scene outside. It was first mentioned by Aristotle in the 4th Century B.C. and developed through the centuries as an aid to drawing.

The camera obscura (Lat. dark chamber) was an optical device used in drawing, and one of the ancestral threads leading to the invention of photography. Photographic devices today are still known as "cameras".

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