Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@mavica @softgoat never understood it as a tourist attraction, considering you can just, y'know, look and not have to build anything

seems to have been quite successful though

@mavica @softgoat you can dispense with the film as well, camera obscura's been used for centuries as a painting aid

also as a tourist attraction, there's one in Edinburgh IIRC

but yeah, photographic camera you kinda need the film

@mavica @softgoat and then for the fake photography (as opposed to serious REAL PHOTOGRAPHY) you can get little boxes that just have a tiny dude in there painting really quickly

@softgoat 'course, if you're taking pictures by looking at the screen on the camera instead of through the teeny tiny viewfinder it'll make bugger all difference if it's SLR or not

@softgoat from what I understand (which is admittedly limited) an SLR camera is one what has mirrors and prisms and stuff in it so that what you see in the viewfinder is exactly what you're taking a picture of through the main lens, as opposed to non-SLR cameras where you'd have the viewfinder looking through a separate lens

a DSLR is one of them what uses a digital sensor instead of film