The DCO or Why digital ?

A pinhole camera, commonly known as "Camera Obscura" (latin for dark room), is a dark cavity where light can fall in through a little whole. On the opposite side of the whole an upsite down, mirror-wrong image of the large-far-world forms. On the one hand there is the genious simplicity of a pinhole camera that encaptured the great environment which surrounds us on light-sensitive materials such as paper or film, yet nowadays transports the analog brightness measures into the dataspace of digital imaging. On the other hand we have all the possibilities to see the unusual view of a Camera Obscura, and are able to share this with others on the web, on paper, in projections or other means of communication.

The delivered magic of a Camera Obscura from the early stages of the photography comes together with the magic of virtual modern times.

Original problems arise in other form also with the DCO, however us the new, manipulate and medium capable for editing and comes digital to property! As follows from the Formeltuerei, is the picture, which develops opposite the lochblende very faintly, head-standing on that and mirror-operates. An appropriate computer often commodity (see to screen SHOT) provides remedy and converts the picture according to (mine) user desires, so that one gets the image in jet time time on the laptop.


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Similarly a Camera Lucida their picture one only when sufficient darkening the environment to observe, sees one knows on a laptop under sun exposure cordially few. For this reason a suitable laptop stand with space occupied for computers and camera, as well as appropriate light protection to the equipment of the DCO, which the photographer can pull himself over the head, belongs.



Frontal view/from the view of the photographed one.


Frontal view/the DCO with lochblende (small point in the center).


Back opinion/system power-on.


Back opinion/treatment of the framings.


Back opinion/field of vision of the photographer.