How to Turn a Room into a Camera Obscura

[@salmaeliela3329]

WOOOOAAAAHHHHH, this is insane. I was struggling to grasp the concept just by reading about it, but this helped so much. Completely changed my perspective on image. Thank you so much for making this !

[@user-jv2lg5ti7n]

I am a middle school teacher. Next week I'm gonna talk about photography in class and this excellent video is just what I'm looking for . Thank u for making this! I'm about to share your video with my students. 👍

[@CYRiPKK1]

Best quarantine project. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

[@JewelRiders]

Did you end up doing it? How did it go?

[@pokiro1698]

UPDATE US

[@coyotekid1389]

Bruh I’m watching this in class

[@aldanatpwk9358]

my window accidentally created a camera obscura, but the sun was on the side of the window so all i could see was the sun and clouds passing by, it was beautiful tho

[@suedawalker8934]

omg

[@FindMeInsanity]

Sounds dope! mind posting it somewhere and sharing the link with us??

[@aldanatpwk9358]

@@FindMeInsanity I'll have to check if i still got the videos, but i have to say it wasn't as cool as it sounds, you couldn't see color like the blue from the sky, all you could see was a circle of light (the sun) and some clouds passing over the sun and by the sides, I'll let you know if i find the video

[@aldanatpwk9358]

so i did some research and actually my window created a pinhole camera, which is kinda like a camera obscura but like reverse i guess, they're mainly used for watching solar eclipses so there's a lot of videos on how to make one! i found the results of this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/poXNq4apoJl_rZo the more similar to what i experienced in my room, but if you still want to watch what i recorded then i can upload it to youtube if you'd like

[@hrperformance]

@@aldanatpwk9358 awesome! Thank you!

[@jewishmafia9801]

Neighbours watching you put bags on the windows like you're about to kill somebody

[@kuolettavaVids]

Or just a shift worker, although most just use blackout curtains.

[@n1nja-m0n50]

The fact that his cat is on the bed thats just so cute

[@hilman94]

yepp... he's the star of the show :D

[@kanduyog1182]

Damn, this is probably the best and most immersive demonstration of a camera obscura I've ever seen, granted I've only seen three but still!

[@xjmax269]

wait for it... this video is gonna blow up after the new Daily Dose of Internet video just went up

[@dchhabz17]

ikrrr

[@Roguedispatcher]

I just came from over there. Didn’t even finish the video I was so fascinated

[@dchhabz17]

@@Roguedispatcher ikr

[@xjmax269]

@@Roguedispatcher same lmao... i was like "i feel as if a bunch of other people are going to do the same as me", so i took advantage by commenting that before everyone else does

[@wxlrider]

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[@naordaniel]

whhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooowww!!!!!! I can't believe it, I thought I will see small shadows at best!! this is unbelievable! you get a full picture with colours!! going to be trying it just so I can see it with my own eyes! THANK YOU!

[@pabloescobar2770]

Haha, one day I was taking a nap on my room and I saw that my windows were making a reflection of the cars outside of my home. It was cool.

[@dino3l597]

World is Magic! And smart people are Magicians! 😍😍😍 From art to Engineering🌻 thank you so much for taking my simple mind closer to understanding this magic

[@yakadoodledongywongy8718]

A lense that would turn the image upside down would be fun.

[@ThinkerTinker74]

Would it work to use a mirror above your eyes to look through at the image in front of you?

[@MrCk0212]

1:37 North-facing window for northern hemisphere and south-facing window for southern hemisphere.

[@ajlee5171]

I think I experienced a similar natural phenomenon to this. I was about 14, sitting in my bedroom one winter day when I noticed 2 mini crisp shadows walking across my wall. They were so crisp and clear that I could see strands of hair and the clothes wrinkle as they walked. It remind me of those old school projectors we had in school. I figure it was due to the sun casting thier shadows onto the snow covered ground and then reflecting into my bedroom window. But never understood how they appeared so sharp and clear. This makes it make sense now

[@yaboi-km2qn]

sunny day? I live in England.

[@joieva]

This is the best explanation I found! This kind of remind me of Sheldon Cooper's fun with flags though😀

[@rpn000rpnca]

When I was kid, I made my bathroom into a camera obscura. I used tape and aluminum wrap. Made a hole with a needle.

[@flywithanon9018]

Instructions are unclear, accidentially open a meth lab

[@ivegotpetercriss]

4:20 video length posted on April 20th. Nice

[@annachovanova2993]

Nice

[@dominusanuli3595]

Nice

[@peaceandlove22999]

nice

[@diwrnod]

nice

[@greysonrivers]

I needed this for my assignment I was sick so my professor couldn’t tell me how and he wasn’t available for Zoom so this helped a lot!

[@FOURWORDCREATIVE]

That was AWESOME! i LOVE that and appreciate that! i used that to show my 5 year old curious guy about the origin of the camera basically

[@dlasky]

Instructions are unclear. I sealed all the openings in my bedroom including the ventilation and accidentally suffocated to death

[@franzliszt8957]

Well, apparently you came back to life so that's fine.

[@coyotekid1389]

ye at least ur ok

[@Insert639]

paramedics 1, 2 and 3 arrive on scene paramedic 1 approaches victim **checks pulse** **looks up** **shakes head😞**

[@psiloki9054]

This happens in my room every day at a certain time.

[@darcyasher2716]

Good video. Nice job, Nick!

[@diane_2076]

ahh its so cool I wanna try it when I have my own room

[@noelalexisshaw-nas-noz5142]

Superb...Thankyou for Sharing, answers so many Questions about Our Hidden and Distorted History...Much Love and Peace My Friend...🤜🏼❤🤛🏿

[@janvisser8452]

No, it doesn't sound boring..

[@triamiciphotographyacademy2212]

Thats rocks!

[@angelazou1530]

Stunning!

[@Bri-ne8nx]

Anyone else here from tiktok lol

[@vaniabaltazar4719]

Bri • me lol

[@karlaf0723]

Me

[@josephmodesitt]

Sup

[@janitaf1351]

Same

[@matilda1744]

Lmao, caught red handed

[@henrys.235]

Your voice almost sounds like Napoleon Dynamite in the beginning

[@NasserAlhameli]

Ibn al-Haytham who first discoverd it as they say.. Very helpful video

[@A3Kr0n]

I've noticed that just a roller shade cracked open a bit will be you an upside down image on the wall.

[@arianrahman4840]

Waiting for this to blow up

[@mbrp5107]

me living in equator: guess i need to move my window to the ceiling

[@diwrnod]

He said to pick a north-facing window, so the sun is on the opposite side of the house as much as possible. The sun should be shining directly on what you are trying to capture through the camera obscura, but not into the room itself. Being on the equator would actually make this a lot easier, because you could use a south-facing window as well.

[@mbrp5107]

@@diwrnod if you live in the equator, the sun is directly above your head, so if you want to get as much as sun light, the best way is to get a window on the rooftop lol maybe i confused the word 'ceiling' with 'rooftop'

[@craigharrison1274]

Great video!

[@agripinams9592]

Hello, everyone. This is your daily douse of *quarantine* .

[@burtgundy796]

dose btw

[@fifi3568]

I did it it is up right now but it is super dark I’m not sure what I can do do I make a bigger hole in the trash bag?

[@mattariety955]

this was amazing

[@mariadladavila]

Amazing I really wanna do it 😍

[@hamzaesenli]

Thank you very much

[@krishnansrinivasan830]

Awesome & Thanks :)

[@kidnamedgrass]

There used to be a hole in my window that projects things inverted inside

[@JewelRiders]

Very cool!

[@hohurnham7583]

Brilliant

[@Alex-op2kc]

Trippy

[@pheminismisshit4571]

super it gives a theatre exp

[@CobDaGOAT]

Is there a way to turn the image back right side up like our brain does?

[@courtneydudleysimone]

Does anyone know if this would work if you made a light tight box inside inside of a room lit with like regular lighting? For example does the image need to come from a very sunny day or would indoor lighting work to create an image inside the box inside the indoor room

[@Scarz733]

Ahhhhh now I see how to create this from DailyDoseofInternets video, nice man

[@berkexan4117]

It possible to flip the image upright by putting a lense in front of the focus point?

[@ChrisPBacon1434]

Idk but you can just flip the world outside upside down and ot should appear upright

[@jimthebossdubs2398]

No, lenses still see "upside down." The only reason we see images the way our eyes see them is because on something like an SLR, there's a mirror or prism showing us such through a viewfinder. On digital cameras, the firmware is programmed to show it on the back screen.

[@christianbishop6524]

Could you do this with tinfoil? I've thought about doing this for sooo long

[@GeorgeEastmanMuseum]

Yes! Tinfoil would work as well.

[@arandomyoutuber6634]

thats pretty cool

[@petronhopaula5505]

amazing

[@alondraacosta-mora6504]

What lense did you got please can you share!!!

[@nylon1458]

Tried to make this in my room, it kinda worked, but it's all just black lol, no color at all

[@alexandrayakovleva1438]

Awesome! Still confused why does it project upside down. What reverts it?

[@TONE11111]

light travels in beams/straight lines, so the light from the foot of a tree goes upward, from the treetop, down to bottom of the image, creating the inverted picture.

[@FaithG-s1f]

Our eyes do the exact same thing a pinhole camera does. Projects an image to the back of our eye through a tiny hole (pupil). Then our brain does the work of flipping the image to make sense to us. In a camera, the flip happens manually, with printing or how the camera is built. Images can only be projected upside down because an image is only light particles bouncing perfectly off a surface. Look up how light and eyes work, its very good info :)

[@suedawalker8934]

okay gonna try

[@alondraacosta-mora6504]

I tried but I don’t know why is not working maybe it is the lense that is not strong enough

[@mubashirtanwar8674]

Here before daily dose

[@joemanning8564]

daily dose of internet lol

[@jpmvidal]

This is the technique that was used in order to create the shroud of Turin. It was a cleverly made photograph made during the renaissance as follows: the shroud was covered with a light sensitive chemical made of silver and it was placed within a camera oscura. The subject on the image of the shroud was standing outside the wall. The shroud was then exposed twice to light, one for the body and another one for the face. In that way, the face will be proportional and not elongated due to the large focal point which caused a significant curvature on the longitudinal extremes of the image. However, such distortion did affect the overall image and can be noticed on the feet of the subject, as the feet are not proportional but elongated due to this field curvature. Overall, the shroud of Turin is the oldest photograph in the world and should be displayed in a science museum.

[@davidlian1301]

How to reverse the image?

[@dominusanuli3595]

You can either get a lens that flips it or you can look upside down. Other than that it'll stay the same. Beautiful af tho.

[@Edvinaronson]

And then?

[@MrDagassman]

Towel under the door for camera obscure. Surrrrreee

[@mistyz0ne]

how does the image have the window lines?

[@diwrnod]

Because he has a sash window and the light is blocked by the rail of the sash before it passes through the aperture.

[@Jarppispecial]

Who came here from the new Daily Dose of Internet video?

[@ayyildiz1523]

Ibn Al-Haytham had discovered that.

[@ethanbruce7647]

You can see so much outside, but no inside gets outside...

[@molestedmango]

Poor cat

[@rodriguezahr]

Good demonstration of the amazing discovery of an Iraqi astronomer, Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham, 1000 years ago!

[@yahirsvega323]

Here from Daily dose of internet

[@AbdiPianoChannel]

I accidentally discovered the camera obscura at very young age in early 70s I was little scientist when I was 6 to 14 years old.

[@timothymatthews6458]

your old lol

[@AbdiPianoChannel]

@@timothymatthews6458 I am old. I will be 54 in few months.

[@duoiskurogane7832]

Free cctv

[@Generasi_frustasi_13]

theory created by Ibn Al_Haythan

[@Obi396]

Nice video, but the basis of this pinhole experiment was first accredited many centuries earlier to the Iraqi scientist Ibn al-Haytham, known as Alhazen in the West, who was born in the 10th century and now considered to be the “Father of Modern Optics”.

[@mjmajin]

men so gay calling everyone the "father of [...]"

[@zurienda1]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ64lI2qhbZ5irs You're right.

[@dedsec4477]

I don't need dis I just need a blanket

[@yayitstougs]

Who else came here from the movie wonder?

[@franciscadonosoallie]

Hello, we are trying to make a xamara obscura for an art exhibit. Can we contact someone for questions?

[@BeatsBrowne]

Here from daily fose of internet

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People who came from the daily dose of internet

[@xjmax269]

sorry bud, I was here before you

[@helgywolf2111]

What. The. Fuck. It's to early for this shit

[@knicks403]

science 10? uo d ka nagiisa

[@habibbalkc334]

Camera obscura is Ibn Al-Haytham! Not French.

[@anonymous2238]

Ancient Chinese and Aristotle discovered this before BC.

[@normalbutyl]

Rubs hands like birdman

[@imagod79]

Nick. You have some serious monotone aka robot voice.. please take some vocal coaching.. hard to listen to. Thanks for the video.

[@spottemgottem9232]

i just did this and it turned out horrible 😂

[@ThinkerTinker74]

@user-jv2lg5ti7n @CYRiPKK1 Yup, optics and wavelength-physics. Add two magnifying glasses with a regular sheet of paper and you have a telescope to peep on your neighbors without them noticing an actual telescope in your window. Isn't that a freaky thought!?... anyway, instead of covering the window and using a white bedsheet, set one magnifying glass on a table facing the window, stand a sheet of (white) paper behind the magnifying glass, you might notice 'something' on the paper when it's not too far, nor too close to the magnifying glass. Now, use your other magnifying glass to "adjust the focus" on your sheet of paper. The darker the room, the brighter the image. To improve the visibility of the image, you can cover the home-made telescope with a thick dark as possible (light-blocking) linen/clothing such as a blanket or your coat/jacket and look at the image by putting your head under the linen/clothing. You adjust the focus by adjusting the position of the paper and magnifying glass. This set-up makes it a bit difficult to see the moon and stars straight up, but you can see daylight images of whatever is outside the window. If the window image is too small on the paper, move the whole table closer to the window. When you have your clearest image, note the distance between the paper and magnifying glasses and then set-up a styrofoam to hold your apparatus up and enjoy hands free. Painting the styrofoam matte black will help with image clarity. The less light pollution, the clearer the image. Just like a real telescope. Bring the whole telescope closer to the window and you can cover the window, around the telescope's range of view, to reduce ambiant light inside even more. If the room is completely dark (hardly possible), you don't even need to cover the images. I've done this in college physics class on a bright sunny day, sun overhead and slightly behind, and windows were completely uncovered. No funds for blinds lol. It still worked. Point the camera north in the northern hemisphere and south if you're in the southern hemisphere. Putting a question out. Would this trick work in outerspace?