tribal-warrior
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I'm keen on building a camera obscura to revist photography's not too distant past and simple beginnings. I'm going to start with a pinhole version and then make another one with a simple lens. So I thought I'd hunt around eBay for a cheap, disposable lens. I figured I'd probably need something with a medium to long focal length to project a decent size image circle on the wax paper viewing screen. Then I just remembered that I've got a 10x microscope eyepiece that I'm not using anymore. Though my question is - which side of the lens eyepiece should be facing outward? There is the side of the lens that I put my eye to when viewing through the microscope. And then there's the other side which is normally inside the microscope itself.
I'm guessing it would be preferable to have the side that would be inside the microscope - facing outward, collecting the light. And the other side facing your eye, just like with a microscope.
I'm guessing it would be preferable to have the side that would be inside the microscope - facing outward, collecting the light. And the other side facing your eye, just like with a microscope.
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