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It is not digital.

Clamp it to a desk, and position it so the lens/prism is over your blank paper and also facing whatever it is you want to draw. You look down into it. What you see is your subject "projected" on to the blank paper. It doesn't actually project it… you see it through the prism. And you can then also see your pencil point, and can trace the image.

Refer to the figure "camera lucida in use" on this wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_lucida

You need to take care to maintain the same position over the lens/prism. If you move, your drawing moves. So starting a drawing and coming back to it the next day is problematic at best. 

Karen




On Dec 11, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Kathleen Garness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

It's not clear to me how these work - can someone please explain? Is this a manual or a digital tool?

Thanks,

Kathy

On Dec 11, 2013, at 8:29 PM, Chris Gralapp wrote:

Hi Amy,

Thanks so much for this notice--I just bought one!  Curiously enough, I went to see the David Hockney exhibition today in San Francisco, and he has a whole room devoted to the camera lucida.  There was a wall covered with lovely, sensitive portraits, all drawn with a CL, and I was inspired to experiment with one, I was so impressed.  And now I can have my own for less than $50!  Happy Holidays!

Chris

On 12/11/2013 5:46 PM, Amy J. Gagnon wrote:
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Hi there!  In case anyone is interested, the neolucida is on Amazon now!

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