Modern cameras don't have a tiny person inside making incredibly fast and detailed drawings of what's in front of the lens, ...

As far is known, he built the first working camera obscura, which he used beginning in 1569 to project the images of unsuspecting guests into a special room for the delight of a few select ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Something strange and wonderful happens when light enters a dark space through a tiny opening. Aristotle described the ...

French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce is credited with creating the first permanent photograph in 1826. He used a camera obscura and a pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt ...

“The camera obscura is the most primitive form of photography. It’s simple when you break it down,” said Zoey Vecchio, ...

If you're traveling with kids, there is no better place in Edinburgh than Camera Obscura and World of Illusions. Located at the top of the heavily (tourist) trafficked Royal Mile, Camera Obscura ...

Today, one of the first things many photography students are taught is how to blackout a room to create a camera obscura — or (same principle) a pinhole camera. And that’s how Morell ...

I’ve been following Ben McCarthy’s journey with Obscura since the app first launched in 2015, watching the app as it has evolved alongside changes to Apple’s camera hardware. Camera apps pose unique ...