How to Make a Camera Obscura

This is a tutorial on how to make a peculiar little device called a Camera Obscura. That means “Dark Chamber” in latin. It is box with a lens that projects an image of the world. And it is something that goes all the way back to antiquity. Even Leonardo DaVinci and Johannes Kepler wrote about it. Some were even as large as a whole room or building that projected the image onto a wall. This was a very early precursor to the modern day camera. And you can see why. All you have to do is replace our wax paper