Camera obscura means dark room. It's the natural optical way of projecting an image on a wall. It starts out with a room pitch black, and a tiny hole on the side where natural light shines in, AKA the sun. On the other side of the wall, will project what is outside, upside down. It's the tangible image of what our eyes see before our brain flips it upright. Later improvements of the camera obscura involved putting in a lens or two to reflect it where you please. The start of the camera obscura and its improvements led to the creation of images being captured with the camera. Our photography class was bale to experience a camera obscura. Our teacher, Mrs. Moncure, called us in two at a time into her dark classroom. A student and I were the first of her period to be called in, my first impression was that I was in trouble because the room was dark and she said "stand right there", pointing towards the wall where she had it. We sat and she had us hold up a box, that had one of it's side cut out, and she asked us "what do you see?". I thought it was a video or something because things were movie on the projection. The student that was with me said he saw a tree and people, and then right away I saw what was on the outside, upside down.
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