Writer: Pablo Garcia

Brunel’s Camera Lucida: A Closer Look
9 January 2025

Brunel’s Camera Lucida: A Closer Look9 January 2025

– Pablo Garcia

A camera lucida is a 19th-century drawing aid. When you look into the eyepiece, you see a ghost image of your subject overlaid onto your paper. Since you can see your hand holding your pencil with your subject superimposed, you can trace directly from real life. Invented in 1807, before… Read More

drawing instruments DMC

DMJ – The Stereoautograph
6 December 2023

DMJ – The Stereoautograph6 December 2023

– Pablo Garcia

The Zeiss Stereoautograph 1914 Bild II is a mammoth device (Fig.1). It weighs over 400kg and has the same footprint as a Smart Car. When it was retired and donated to the Zeiss Archive in 2004, the Technical University of Hanover had to remove part of its roof in order to lift… Read More

topographic/cartographic survey landscape DMJ 2 – Drawing Instruments/Instrumental Drawings