How To Make A Camera Obscura Box

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Camera accessory manufacturer Fotodiox has published a video that explains how to make a digital camera obscura that can be used for both video and photograph capture made from a box, a magnifying drinking glass, and frosted plastic.

The build is promised to be super-elementary and results in an unusual video capture device as well equally a fun photography tool. While the photos and videos can exist digitized by simply taking a photograph of the rear of the device, Sean Anderson too shows how to make "true" digitized versions of the photos using a document scanner.

Photographic camera Obscura is the oldest blazon of camera in existence and the basics of it in do engagement back as far equally paleolithic cave paintings. That said, the earliest written observations of information technology date back to effectually 470 BCE in Chinese text called Mozi.

The concept shown in the video above by Anderson is incredibly simple: information technology uses a box with either a pinhole or a lens attached to the front which projects lite onto the back. The lens can be focused past altering the altitude of the rear of the box from that front element. In this example, Anderson uses a plate of frosted plastic then that he tin can photo or browse the reflected image.

Camera Obscuras are a fun and piece of cake basic photography tool to build and experiment with, but what if y'all used a portable document scanner to digitize the images created with one? In this video, Anderson shows you how he built a camera obscura with a cardboard box, a magnifying glass and some frosted plastic, and how he uses an iScan portable document scanner to create lo-fi large format digital images with information technology.

As Anderson points out, giant camera obscura were used past painters to create accurate renditions of people or landscapes since the creative person could trace the prototype as it was projected through the device. Over time though and equally film and digital grew in popularity, photographic camera obscura accept mostly fallen out of use outside of hobbyists.

This projection is therefore something that would be more for educational purposes, or simply for fun. Anderson shows how he uses a very simple setup to brand a camera obscura video likewise as how he uses a handheld scanner to digitize any images that he makes using the "large format" system.