Thank you for a clear review. I could not get the QR code videos to run at all and about threw the thing away until I saw your video. It’s frustrating that they don’t give real instruction with the product. And they want to charge extra for a few lessons. I’m still returning mine, (in my opinion, it’s not worth the box they shipped it in) but it was nice to see something that makes sense.

been looking for a good review of this and now I'm sold, thanks!

Thanks for a coherent, informative review/demonstration of this device. It helps to have a real artist testing this. Some others I've found were company shills (didn't show enough of the actual view through it--just talked about it) or were not coherent or artists. The way you plan to use this camera lucida - making sketchy, loose tracings of subjects that will still have fairly accurate proportions makes good sense. We have many high-tech ways now to produce accurate images so the 'Lucy' can be put to more 'creative' tasks perhaps. As artists I believe we need to mention -- for all the beginners wanting to "learn to draw"-- that this tool won't "teach you to draw", because it's just a tracing device. It can help beginners practice how to hold various drawing tools and how to vary line weight or texture all without the 'pesky simultaneous problems' of judging proportions and placement on the page, etc. and still get an image more pleasing than a scribble. It takes practice, practice, practice,... to "learn to draw" but the "Lucy" might help those who need a confidence boost by making a 'pleasing' image by tracing and excite them to learn more. Or they can just trace things.

I've been trying to find information on these things "The Lucy," "Tim's Vermirror," and the cell-phone app called "Da Vinci Eye." I haven't purchased any of them yet, but I'm leaning toward the Da Vinci Eye, because it seems to offer more versatility in sizing, including something mural sized. That system appears to use photos stored on your phone and your phone's camera to make them seem superimposed on the view screen while you trace onto the canvas or paper that the camera is focused on. Thanks for your video on this!

On the gooseneck arm it seems kind of wobbly. However when you demonstrate looking through the actual viewer, The wobbling doesn't seem to transfer to the image projected onto the page which is encouraging.

Can you use it to draw/paint from large (the image) to smaller (my painting)?

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Yes!

Ty 👍👍👍👍🍺😎

Please let people know

This is so useless disappointed

No point