Camera lucida

L O R D O F T H E T H I N G S FOR a good part of my life, I’ve been looking around all over the world for things that hold meaning for me. But they’re pretty hard to nail down or g…

Joe builds a Camera Lucida and tries his hand at sketching.

I got a bee in my bonnet about Cameras Lucidae and Obscurae this morning. They are simple devices used to transfer images to a drawing surface. The ad above is the most widely known variety of Camera Lucida, a cheap and flimsy model which I saw once in a thrift store and decided it was too crappy to waste half a buck on. It is a pretty fanciful depiction, as the posture of the artist is considerably different from the peering through a hole that you must do to use it properly. Also, it…

For centuries, artists have developed devices to help translate what they see directly onto paper. One of those tools is the camera lucida...

More than 500 years ago, it was discovered that when an image is projected onto a wall in a dark chamber, an optical effect could be created by light passing through a small hole on the opposite wall. This observation led to the development of devices like the camera obscura, camera lucida, and eventually the [...]

Diagrams of the components of a camera lucida. The camera lucida, a small hand-held instrument designed for drawing in daylight, was invented by the English optical physicist William Hyde Wollaston...

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DIY tablet mount for the Camera Lucida App

The LUCY reflects an image of anything. Just draw over the image to quickly start your realistic masterpiece. Get you LUCY today!