Camera Obscura

[FieryFlamingFajitas]

So cooooool! We did this the other day in Photography class. <3

[K3FON]

I came here thinking it was the band.

[AlbertoBalsamm]

I remember seeing this kind of things as a child when I lingered in bed sunday mornings with the blinds closed. Some tiny crack would let the light through and the view from the window would project itself in my bedroom wall upside down. Amazing.

[lunaspite]

well thats my mind blown

[Yoshinoya000]

<3 simply amazing we did this in our photography class not too long ago.The outside reflection is actually black and white its only color when you take a picture with a camera of the reflection which i found even more amazing.

[ThinkerHatNeeded]

@Yoshinoya000 I can imagen magicians using that

[TaTakaCzternastka]

it's amazing <3

[TheEnglishRogue]

I did this for the science fair in 6th grade and received a C+.

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[eddyjt13]

we did this yesterday in our photography class and it was awesome

[stromx44]

Me and my friends done this today :D It was awesomeee :X

[Sebastiaanlog]

To all people who ask question about this being real or not, let me explain it, i study photography :) So when a room is dark, when no light can come in you won't see a thing (which to you all may sound obvious) so when a little piece of light comes in the light takes over the way the room is gonna look like, so when light falls in it takes over the image it has 'seen' but upside down, this has to be a small hole because when its larger the light will be to strong to give image

[TheWwweee]

i don't get it

[Db3st0794]

@TheWwweee physics

[zfdtscsfxdsxgt]

if you cut bigger hole why doesnt work? actually why do you see a picture at small hole and not just a small light coming into the room?

[VDmedina910]

O_o WTF!!

[Mohaukseven]

I can't believe this works! It's unbelievable... and so beautiful! Amazing work.

[msafrica4]

Out of this world amazing! I watched this for my photography class, wow! Can't wait to try it.

[forevermadalyn]

I did this yesterday in my photography class. it's the coolest thing ever to see it for real.

[Whatisright]

Did't try it like he did but saw it in action. My room is pretty dark all the time and light was shinning through my blinds and I was looking at the lines and took a photo of where the light was hitting the wall. I look at the photo and notice some odd shapes. I take a closer look and it's 3 windows from the house next door. Had a small omg moment.

[daniihgarcia]

Geeeeeniaal

[hongdekong]

when i was on holiday in barcelona, we had a curtain. what really kept out the light for a siesta and someone made a little hole in that so we could see the street it was great

[ElectricFizzPop]

Met him again in Philadelphia... he is a very nice man. Good natured and funny as shit!

[skyviewranchcamper]

That looks so cool...i want to do it so i can actually see it in person :)

[IzumiKaulitz483]

Awwwww I wanna do this!!! I did a stenopeic camera. This is simply amazing :D

[poppet576]

i have done this with my bedroom. the view outside isn't spectacular but seeing it projected onto the wall is amazing..

[4r4bGh3tt0]

Ibn al-Haytham devised the world's first camera obscura, observed what happened when light rays intersected at its aperture, and recorded the results.

he called it cumra in arabic means dark room

[joeceph]

@4r4bGh3tt0 No, he didn't. Variants of the obscura principle were well known even back in BC times (al-Haytham lived about a 1300 years later). He did, however, study the phenomenon in more detail and analysed it further than anyone had done before.

[4r4bGh3tt0]

@joeceph he lived in the 965-1040 this is was the time of inventions

what the west call it the dark age because the west had no inventions at all

when they start getting the knowdge from arab

[thror13]

i saw this video and instantly had to try it! It really works! I did it all for $3 (tape and poster board). The only hard part is making sure there are no light leaking in. Its a really fun thing to do and i think you should all try it. Very relaxing!

[shaukmio]

1:20 WOW!

[GamersWeekly123]

So just cover the window with a dark dark material then put a hole in the material? and thats it?

[SimMaster]

why does everything move so slow

[Bojo7]

@SimMaster

it's probably because of the low light. if you want to shoot in such dark conditions, you can cheat your camera-chip with a shuttertime below your actual framerate...

in fact you get only one or two pictures per second... but much brighter.

[dayeekiiins]

OMFG...flabbergasted is a good word for my reaction.

[superiourcowies]

how hard is this to do? how big do you make the hole?

[mremmig]

@superiourcowies

about the size of a dime should be good

[cardonaman]

thats amazing! but how does it work!!

[veraoptics]

This is a beautiful demonstration of the camera obscura, and it features Venice; the image of so many famous painters, and where I hitched to in 1979 and was amazed. The camera obscura and the pinhole are beautiful phenomena. I really enjoyed this video.

[Googolagahummike]

I want to do this.

[24Aeros]

Amazing vid. Big thank your for the up.

But...

Now I can't get the song "French Navy" by the band Camera Obscura outta' my head

[estenopa]

Muy bello

[vitruvian8807]

I accidentally came across this while boarding up my window. I had covered half the window, when I noticed that shadows and light would cross the wall. Of course I knew about a pinhole camera before that, but it feels so unreal when you actually make one.

[elianaposada2009]

Fabuloso!!!! Thank you very much for uploading this video!!!

[MattIAm1987]

I'm trying to figure out how this technology relates to the Daguerreotype. Thanks for uploading this.

[LennertG]

beautyful

[whitebate]

dope

[Dzimini]

finaly I get it!

[hydrophone]

incredible!