Diagram showing the concept of a multilensed camera obscura, with two lenses capturing distinct views to be mixed directly onto the film inside the camera
CAMERA CONSTRUCTIONS
ONGOING // TAIPEI, TAIWAN
Camera Constructions explores Autistic perception through the construction of portable multi-lensed camera obscures. This is a continuation of my work constructing room-sized camera obscures, see: How Do We Project, Through Multiple Lenses, MERT.
Below are a series of diagrams, exploring different possibilities of how the cameras could be constructed. The construction of the cameras will be a prototyping, trial and error process, where small diagrams like these will be rapidly constructed using wood, cardboard, and tape, primarily, to test if they are able to produce images.
Evolution from a typical camera with one lens. Splitting the lens into two. Expanding on the camera body to allow a wider projection.
Curving the film behind one lens to narrow the focal point and widen the perspective. Inward facing double lenses, using mirrors on the interior side, to flip the image onto the film.
Camera merging perpendicular views using a mirror on the internal side.
The Plan, two different scales being mixed. The Section, adding lenses vertically.
Mixing different scales of the scene, but shifting the lens distance to the film.
Two lenses capturing the same scene, one view being flipped by an internal mirror.
Diagrams showing progression towards a three lens mix, using internal mirrors.
Three lenses exposing a film being curved inside the camera.
AXO view of two lensed camera.
AXO view of two lensed camera mixing opposite views, via mirrors on the interior side.