Hello young lady, I just wanted to come back and leave a comment here that your process of assembling this was brilliant. I followed your steps precisely with less than $10 worth of materials from my local Hobby Lobby.

There is a very good documentary titled “Tim’s Vermeer” (on KZfaq) that gives a quite different use for an antique camera lucida. Tim (not an artist) painted Vermeer’s “Music Lesson” using this camera lucida & in a storeroom with natural light, he setup a facsimile of the paintings scene. In the latter part of the film, I believe he added a 3” concave mirror with a focal length of 300mm. He needed more light & it seems the concave mirror gave him a better looking image. Check it out bc at the end, Tim’s “Vermeer Music Lesson” is compared to an image of the real “Music Lesson” & see what you think?

This is the best set of instructions I have found. Perfectly brilliant!

Awesome video. Thank you for sharing.❤ Why was I not taught this in grade 4 arts and crafts? This is an excellent way to get kids interested in art.

This is really cool (and your instructions were great), and the fact that you were able to capture an image of what the actual camera lucida image looks like was super helpful. It is actually better than I was thinking it would be. Thanks for making this video.

To complete: in your model the transparent glass is, as we know, 10 cm high, but then the horizontal dimension of the glass (the diagonal) will be 14,142 cm. This info is useful to have the glass precut at 10 x 14,142 cm Interestingly, if the glass were 1 cm tall instead of 10, then the width of the glass would be 1,4142 cm, which is the square root of 2. By the way, A4 paper is dimensioned at 1 wide by 1,4142 high.

This can be such a time saver for getting the initial sketch down quickly! I'm making one today. Great instructions.

Clever girl, your video is very informative and a delight to watch xxx

Great description. Thanks for the demonstration.

Cute doggie! Great aid!

Thank you for connecting it to Peppers Ghost. I know the truck from Disneyland's Haunted Mansion where they use it during the ballroom section that has dancing ghosts. When I saw this I thought it might be the same concept, but was not sure. Now I know! Thank you.

I love your box!

Her construction and demonstration is done well!

AMAZING VIDEO !!!!! thank you so much for this . I have school project at school and i didn't know how to build the camera but after ur video , its much easier to make just would like to know the measurements for the glass, black card and mirror .

Nice instructions. For future reference adding music in the background is maddening for us hearing impaired. I seriously wanted to scream while I struggled to pay attention to your voice. Halfway through I had to turn the volume off and rely on CC.

This is the best building instruction Ive seen and I can buy the materials at Dollar Tree for under $10. I think I will add a little stand/with arm/ so that I will not have to hold it while drawing and I will also have a much stable device.

Excellent! Exactly what I was looking for! Glad I found your channel. Thanks!

thank you for your quick reply,, enjoy this video and viewed it 3 times just to make sure of it...getting parts the to make the lucida very best to you always. later i will get back to you thanks again...Joe australia

You are awesome! Thank you.

I learned something today, thanks!

Very lucid demo on making a camera lucida. There are also apps that do this now but your demo was entertaining. All the best to your wee doggie.

The little dog is adorable ! Cool video thanks ! Going to try it .

I understood the way to doing it. Thanks. What I need, it is just enough to draw the essential.

Super! I was just pricing those. This one can fit in my budget.👍

You’re adorable. Great job.

i haven't seen one in person but from what i've seen on tv and YT im guessing u still have to b talented enough to finish the picture by eye. ..that u properly just get an outline ....if that's the case I'd say its more of an aid to get perspective correct.....then again the old masters managed to get an insane amount of detail from theses things BUT i think they made them as big as a room....if i remember correctly. has anyone here used the commercially made ones and can tell us how well they work???

What a great demonstration! Halfway through your presentation I was already convinced to subscribe to your channel. Your skill and curiosity are evident. Will you be able to share your dimensions in imperial increments (inches)? I am thinking the mirror is 4" square and the glass might be 6"x4". Am I close at all? Thank you for sharing your interpretation of this fascinating technology.

This is wonderful! I wonder if this would work if this camera lucidia was placed on some kind of transparent surface to suspend it higher without having to hold it (like a mini acrylic/glass table or something). Even if not, I love this and how easy and affordable it is! I understand and respect why the fancier ones can be expensive, I just don't have the money for one. I like to make my sketches on a digital drawing tablet and transfer them onto surfaces thay are too thick to use a light tale on like illustration boards or canvas panels. Graphite paper is too messy for me and Idon't like that it isn't always erasable. I don't mind that it may not be a perfect transfer either--as long as I can get an approximation and erase mistakes, then I don't mind.

This is amazing thank you so much 🤗

Optics are fascinating and groovy.

Loved it clever girl so simple to make

This looks fun, Artymous. As I'm the proverbial 'pore ole pensioner' could I make it without spending out for a glue gun. I'd have to spread glue some way obviously.

It's content like this that makes me come back to KZfaq and reminds me of when it was a great platform. What kind of dog is that it looks so cute?

Thanks for this. I just discovered Camera Lucida and then when I went looking for one they're like $60, which is far too expensive for what little it is.

Thanks for the info, it's really helpful and is a good project to do related to art 😊👍.

Question! Why do you have the white part of the side with the hole in it facing into the box? Don't you want every inside wall of the box to be black/non-reflective? I am building my camera lucida based on you video now you see :) Thank you for the great tutorial.

Very cool video and so nicely done!

Muy buena información y gracias por mostrar cómo construir está herramienta

Very good tutorial. Very well performed!... i have seen other vídeos about the same subject and i have two doubts: 1. The view hole size difers and your is very small!... 2. The angle between the mirror and glass in your case is about 45 degrees, but other vídeos made with angles of about 30 degrees!... Can you and some advice to me, Congratulations for your vídeo: very artístic and professional!...

You are a very sweet person thanks for the amazing tutorial

"I am such a jelly brain". That made me laugh. We all are. Rolande barthes mythologies discusses that in another context.

Before I have a go at this, how well does it work at super-long distances? I live in a top floor flat and the view from it is what inspired me to take up art again. On a clear day, I have a viewing range of about 30 miles with a 270 degree angle across all windows. Although my main aim for an artwork would be the 5 miles or so within the town, from just one window. While the tall buildings are distinct and obvious above low-rise houses, they are pretty small on the panarama and would probably get lost in a horizontal wide view.

Great tutorial. Thanks so much!

This is a really cool video. Thank you. ❤

What fun! I’d like to know dimensions of the viewing hole. How could this be safe as an art class project. I think there are plastic mirrors, but glass could be risky. Is there an alternative?

Great video! PS Your dog is adorable.

Excellent tutorial, thank you for sharing your insight. Red herring, would the style of glass make a difference i.e. concave / concurve glass and or with a fresnel lenses?

excellent.

This is so good!

gracias saludos desde Colombia

Outstanding video!! You just got another subscriber!

Can you achieve this with an old-fashioned overhead projector?

Awesome 😆😆😆

Artymouse, you are lucky I don`t live anywhere near you (I`m certain-wrong accent) `cos I could steal your wee dug!

I always learn something from you. Thank you.

cool

Thank you, very informative

Un abrazo desde Colombia. Me gusto mucho el video.

Thank you!

Thank you very much.

Fascinating! Love your dog, I could see that he? Was saying Gimme fruit? But didn't think he really wanted fruit! Very adorable dog! Does this work on white paper at all? Though I suppose there aren't many white backgrounds around..

Thank you.

9:12 Cute Dog... Is your dog a Corgy? Nice job on the Camera Lucida... Now time to build a stand for it!

thank you!

wow thank you

Nice.....thank you, my Good Woman!

this is a good one some how i missed the size of it, looks like 4 ins 100mm any one know the size,,very well done, the best, joe from australia

Oh and hi Doggy of the Artist

It seams that the Dutch painter Vermeer used this technique to make his famous paintings like 'the girl with the pearl earring'.

Lo he comprado, y nó me aclaro..se vé muy pequeño..lástima mis 125€

Simpatica

Is it cheating if one uses the Camera Lucida app on ones phone? Asking for a friend! 😁

Is is junk don’t waste your money I bought it sometime ago and I didn’t have a heart to send it back.

Not very informative. Let us see the construction steps instead of your face, please.

I find the narrative to be almost completely unintelligible.

Would it need to be fixed when drawing the image or was it ok handheld?