Camera Lucida

"Tim's Vermeer is a documentary film, directed by Teller, produced by his stage partner Penn Jillette and Farley Ziegler,[2] about inventor Tim Jenison's efforts[3] to duplicate[4] the painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer, in order to test his theory that Vermeer painted with the help of optical devices."

I figure this might be of interest to anyone looking at the Camera Lucida.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%27s_Vermeer

I got one of these off Kickstarter semi-recently: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pgarcia/neolucida-xl/de...

It works pretty well! Certainly helpful for an artistic novice like myself.

My mum had one from the 1940s, I used it briefly. "its tracing" -kid moved on. Didn't think about the actual purpose of this, or how it figured into history of art (which is what she was a lecturer in) until much later.

They are fun! I am no artist, but with one I can make a semi-competent drawing, sometimes: https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/xmas_trip...

I've used this camera lucida Android app, works nicely (no relation, just a user) :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.petales.fi...

You can also buy these devices on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/NeoLucida-XL-Even-Easier-Trace/dp/B07...