A camera obscura is exactly that: a small room or chamber that is kept completely dark except for a single small hole on one end. When light enters this hole, the action taking place outside the chamber is projected on the far wall, inverted but with perspective and color still intact.
In the16th the cameras obscuras became an important tool for drawing with good perspective,detail and colour. For this purpose they were portables Cameras obscuras.
My Camera Obscura Shay Westlake Technical Sam Rouse Designs Casper Marsh Material Trader Carlos Salamanca Fernandez Maker
These are two of the photographs that we took with the ipad through the camera obscura. The images are quite dark, small and pretty basic I would say but it's a cool, fun and interesting way of learning the basics of photography by building the camera obscura and creating your own design and experimenting with it.
HAVE FUN!!
This is an sketch of how a camera obscura works
The camera obscura was generally used to make accurate paintings of people and landscapes. This drawing from a man using the camera obscura to paint a landscape made between 470 BC to 390 BC