Camera Obscura world wide. Camera Obscura in Mülheim an der Ruhr - Mainly in Europe you find today other Camerae Obscurae in different types and reproductions.
A nice selection of these we have enlisted for you here. If you are familiar with other cameras around the world please let us know! Germany: Camera Obscura Oybiner Berg In 1852 the watchmaker from Oybin, named Weber, had the idea of building a Camera Obscura on the almost highest point of the mountain Oybin, the “Kaiserbett”. Camera Obscura in Havana. Camera Obscura in Havana "Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of every part of the universe are contracted to a point, what a point is so marvelous" - Leonardo da Vinci - Go into a very dark room on a suny day, make a small hole in a window cover and look at the opposite wall, you will see magic.
Full color and movement will be the world outside the window upside down. Light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected from a bright subject, pass through a small hole they do not scatter but cross and reform as an upside down image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole. The Magic Mirror of Life: An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura. Atracción turística CÁMARA OSCURA - TORRE TAVIRA - CÁDIZ. Edinburgh's Camera Obscura - beside Edinburgh Castle - fun for all the family.