Official site for the NeoLucida, the modern camera lucida. Use the NeoLucida to draw accurately from life. Perfect for artists, illustrators, architects, designers, and anyone who likes to draw, or wants to learn to draw.

The Camera Lucida was the latest in a quest for automated drawing stretching back to the Renaissance. Almost immediately after the invention of linear perspective —a set of graphic and mathematical rules for constructing realistic drawings—artists proposed mechanized ways …

The NeoLucida is an optical drawing aid that lets you trace what you see. It is a modern reinterpretation of the camera lucida, an indispensable tool popular in the days before photography was invented. How does it work?

The NeoLucida Plus, like the original NeoLucida, is a “split-vision” camera lucida design. The optical arrangement is a setup where you see straight through to your paper with a reflected ghost image of your subject superimposed.

These artists and scientists used the camera lucida to make accurate drawings of their world, from animal specimens to undiscovered ruins, in a time when drawing was one of the only ways to communicate visual information.

Vintage Camera Lucidas Historical Documents NeoLucida is a project by Pablo Garcia. The original NeoLucida was made in 2013 by Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin and supported by 11,406 backers on Kickstarter.

The NeoLucida XL is a “see-through” camera lucida design. The optical arrangement is a setup where you see straight through to your paper with a reflected ghost image of your subject superimposed.

The NeoLucida XL is a “see-through” camera lucida design. The optical arrangement is a setup where you see straight through to your paper with a reflected ghost image of your subject superimposed.

The NeoLucida is just like the French-made camera lucida “Chambre Claire Universelle” in this 1925 advertisement. Draw landscapes (“dessin de paysage”), portraits (“dessin de portrait”), and image copies —enlargements or reductions (“copie—agrandissement ou réduction”).

The NeoLucida is an optical drawing aid that lets you trace what you see. It is a modern reinterpretation of the camera lucida, an indispensable tool popular in the days before photography was invented. How does it work?