Camera Obscura (Fatal Frame)

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The Camera Obscura is a device used in the Fatal Frame/Project Zero series of video games to vanquish spirits. In retrospect, it is not safe at all as it ultimately creates a link with the user and the spirit.

[edit] Origin

The "Camera Obscura" is a special camera created by Dr. Asou to capture supernatural phenomenon that could not be seen with the naked eye. It was designed to photograph visions of the past and spirit entities, but it was a prototype and its functions had not been fully tested. Photographing "things that ordinary people couldn't see" with this camera had an exorcismal effect.

[edit] Usage

Seijiro Makabe, a folklorist who had come to investigate All God's Village, borrowed this camera from Dr. Asou to photograph the village's rumored Forbidden Ritual. Dr. Kunihiko Asou was a folklorist who studied the spirit world. He modified the latest gadgets of his time, the camera, radio, and projector, trying to create a machine that could capture supernatural phenomenon. He was shunned by the academic world but friends with Makabe.