Camera lucida
Lens and prism system through which a virtual image was seen.
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A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. It was patented in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston.
From the camera lucida to the latest in digital image making and computer manipulation, photographic technology has dramatically changed throughout its nearly 200-year history, ...
Artists used the camera obscura and camera lucida to trace scenes as early as the sixteenth century.
 See also: Camera, Light, Photograph, Photography, Lens
  
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