camera lucida

[Una Smith]

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Robin Leech wrote:

>I think you need to give a bit more information.  I have a camera lucida for
>the old black Leitz stereo, and for the Laborlux compound, microscopes.

I suspect James Bergdahl wants a stand-alone camera lucida, which is
an apparatus you clamp to the edge of your desk, that comes with a set
of little lenses you insert in a holder.  Its main use is is to draft
illustrations of specimens "in hand".  New, this type of camera lucida
runs to several hundred dollars US.

For more, see an article about types of camera lucida that I posted to
one of the sci.bio.* groups (probably s.b.paleontology) some time ago.

        Una Smith               una.smith at yale.edu

        Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
        Yale University
        New Haven, CT  06520-8106