![]() The magic lantern can be seen as a development of the camera obscura. Written information about the camera obscura principle (often referred to as "pinhole image") dates as far back as the fourth century BC in scripts attributed to the Chinese philosopher Mozi. Hardware and software innovations in the late 80s and 90s gave momentum to the development of modern, digital, high-brightness projection systems.īut let’s jump back a few centuries to where it all started… Camera Obscura. The history of both analog and digital projection has been heavily influenced by the development of computers. Digital projection (high-end lenses, optics and illumination sources).Very early projection systems (pre-lens projection systems).Roughly we can divide the history of projection into the following eras: ![]() Did you know that the history of projection reaches all the way back to camera obscura and magic lanterns, but that it was the development of optics in the late 16th and early 17th century that made a major impact on projection as we know it today?
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