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Article: Camera obscura.(HandsOn)
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- ChildArt
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Picture this! You walk into a dark room and the shade is pulled down over the window. As your eyes adjust to the darkness you realize that there is a small hole in the shade. When you turn around and look at the opposite wall, you see the image of the world outside the window. Everything in the image is normal except it is all upside down. How is this possible? What is so special about this room?
When light rays reflect off objects and pass through the small hole in the shade the image flips and is projected upside-down on the wall opposite the window. This is an example of a "camera obscura". The literal translation of camera obscura from Latin is "room dark" ...