Camera Obscura San Francisco

Camera Obscura San Francisco

In its history, the photographic camera was developed from the camera obscura, a device describe earlier than 1039 by the Arabian Scholar Alhazen. It consisted of a darkened room with a hole in one wall which light coming from the scene outside formed an image on the opposite wall. For centuries however, there was no method of recording the image produced, other than drawing it.

The camera obscura was a basically large dark box with a hole in one side for light to shine into. The light shining through this hole would project an upside down image of the world on the other side of the box. You made have done something similar in grade school to "view" a solar eclipse without injuring your eyes.

Camera Obscura San Francisco