Canon 70D

I have taken a lot of photos before I did this project. Never have I tried to build a camera obscura. After reading one part of Magic and Experience, I learned it was all start with optics--dioptrics, which "are indebted to the idea of seeing through something in the sense of insight or understanding," and catoptrics, which "are more oriented toward the illusionizing potential of projection, the artificial reality". Based on these findings, the actual practice can be dating from the fifth century B.C., in particular the writings of the natural Chinese philosopher Mo Ti.  So, we, as a group, built a camera obscura and used it to project images on the wall.

Learning about the camera languages and using them to make our own camera is empowering. It was said when photographers are taking pictures, the camera is their eyes. Building a camera obscura can not only teach us how the cameras get images using the sensor and other parts of camera, but also let us know if we want to take a good picture, we must know our "eyes" well.