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DaveC426913
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I made a thing!
A camera obscura.
OK, the handles and hatch may be overkill but the enhancements started with the spotter, which I found very useful.
The contrpation is difficult to align easily with the sun while looking in the box. I had no way to know which way to twist it to get the sun lined up on the screen. There was no feedback; it was dead right or dead wrong (just like a scope):
Now it's easy to use the spotter to align the shadow before looking in the viewer:
A camera obscura.
OK, the handles and hatch may be overkill but the enhancements started with the spotter, which I found very useful.
The contrpation is difficult to align easily with the sun while looking in the box. I had no way to know which way to twist it to get the sun lined up on the screen. There was no feedback; it was dead right or dead wrong (just like a scope):
Now it's easy to use the spotter to align the shadow before looking in the viewer: