Welcome to the world of camera obscuras.
Welcome to the world of camera obscuras.
Camera Obscuras shown:
Starting top left
A reproduction made by the author of an early 19th c. reflex type in the Museum of History of Science, Oxford.
Top right
‘Vermeers Camera’ invented by Anson Cross in 1934.
Bottom right
The optics of a Tent Camera Obscura containing a meniscus prism by Chevalier 1825.
Bottom left
Collapsible type for use in the field by E.Picard 1890 - invented by Commander Blain a French militia man in 1889.
The central camera obscura is by Ernst Planck a German toy maker, made of tin plate c. 1900.
photographic montage courtesy of The Scientific Instrument Society.