A camera obscura (Latin for dark chamber) is a device for projecting an image on a screen, using either a lens or pinhole.

The term may refer to specific large-scale camera obscuras:

• Camera Obscura (San Francisco, California), at the Cliff House, San Francisco

• Camera Obscura, Edinburgh, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh

• Great Union Camera Obscura, on Douglas Head on the Isle of Man

Camera Obscura may also refer to:

Film

• Camera Obscura (1921 film), silent German film

• Camera Obscura (1997 film), short film featuring Francesco Salvi

• Camera Obscura (2000 film), by Hamlet Sarkissian

• Camera Obscura (2010 film), starring Jack Klugman

• Camera Obscura (2015 film), Egyptian short film

• Camera Obscura (2017 film), American horror film directed by Aaron B. Koontz

• "Camera Obscura", a 1971 episode of Night Gallery

Literature and publications

• Camera Obscura, an 1839 novel by Nicolaas Beets

• Laughter in the Dark (novel), a 1932 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, originally titled, and sometimes translated as, Camera Obscura

• "Camera Obscura", a short story by Basil Copper that was adapted as a 1971 episode of Night Gallery

• Camera Obscura (Rose novel), a 2002 Doctor Who novel by Lloyd Rose

• Camera obscura (Gazvoda novel), a 2006 novel by Nejc Gazvoda

• Camera Obscura, a 2011 novel by Lavie Tidhar

• Camera Obscura, a 1969 short play by Robert Patrick

• Camera Obscura (journal), a feminism, culture and media studies journal

Music

• Camera Obscura (album) by Nico

• Camera Obscura (band), indie pop band from Glasgow

• Camera Obscura (duo), British synth pop band, who had a minor hit in 1983 with the Destitution EP

• Camera Obscura (record label), Australian independent label specializing in psychedelic styles

• "Camera Obscura", the 9th track in Enigma's 2000 album The Screen Behind the Mirror

Video gaming

• Camera Obscura (Fatal Frame), the name of a camera used to exorcise spirits by taking pictures, in the Fatal Frame series

See also

• Pinhole camera