Arizona Chris Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 Hi all, seems I have seen plenty of old style paleo books where they use something called a "camera lucida" to draw fossils. Looks like it would be fun to make one, has anyone tried this? 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona Chris Paleo Web Site: http://schursastrophotography.com/fossiladventures.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepTimeIsotopes Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 The schematics online just show a one sided mirror and a stand to focus the mirror. That'd be a fun Sunday afternoon activity if you got one built. Obviously, you'd have to have a steady light source otherwise your shadows would be off from the sun moving around. Each dot is 50,000,000 years: Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic........... Paleo......Meso....Ceno.. Ꞓ.OSD.C.P.Tr.J.K..Pg.NgQ< You are here Doesn't time just fly by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Chris Posted October 15, 2017 Author Share Posted October 15, 2017 I may build one, I have lots of optics experience so might be really fun! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona Chris Paleo Web Site: http://schursastrophotography.com/fossiladventures.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 There is an iPhone app (Camera Lucida App) for that: http://www.cameralucidaapp.com/about.html It is only $5 from iTunes. I'm still waiting for the foolproof fossil ID app. Take a picture and your iPhone will spit out an ID. My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Hi @Arizona Chris that is a really great idea . I have been thinking for a couple of years about starting a drawing project . I was going to start this summer but somethings happened and It got pushed back onto the back burner. A camera lucida I don't have one now but I made one out of a over head projector or OHP. That worked ok. I am going to put a camera lucida on my Christmas list. If you do make one please share some photos of your work and drawings . cheers Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 With fossils I've only ever seen it used in a documentary about the Burgess Shale. It looked really useful for flattened fossils though. Though I haven't tried this analog technique myself. I generally use a different technique that yields similar results, namely, tracing fossils digitally. I just take good detailed photos and then trace over the fossil in the programme Illustrator. There are several upsides of doing this digitally is that you can zoom in as far as you want as well. As long as the photos are really detailed you can kinda go nuts on adding details in the tracing as well. And best of all, if you're tracing a bunch of disarticulated bones, using Illustrator you can move the bones around afterwards to digitally reconstruct the skeleton. Here are a few examples of the digital tracings I've done. The Haarlem Archaeopteryx. I traced both the positive and negative of the actual fossil and then combined them afterwards. After that I rearranged the bones to reconstruct it. Andrias scheuchzeri Eurypterygius communis 5 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Chris Posted October 15, 2017 Author Share Posted October 15, 2017 LT - those are really amazing. What they remind me of is high quality book graphics. I wish to stay with pen and paper for both a totally nostalgic look, and give the appearance I really know how to draw more than just "stick figures" .... :0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona Chris Paleo Web Site: http://schursastrophotography.com/fossiladventures.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britishcanuk Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 I have a neolucida, it works pretty good once you get the hang of it. http://neolucida.com/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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