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From: Andrew Templeman on 13 Aug 2010 05:19
David J Taylor <david-taylor(a)blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

> "Neil Harrington" <nobody(a)homehere.net> wrote in message
> news:v_6dnZGdNcTKA_nRnZ2dnUVZ_sOdnZ2d(a)giganews.com...
> []
> > I don't know about Greek, and I don't know whether "camera oscura" is
> > still current in Italian. But it is still called a camera obscura today,
> > within the last few decades there were still several in operation and my
> > guess is they still are. They are fascinating devices in the modern
> > form, and at least one was built in a rotating tower so that it could
> > scan a good part of the local town That one used a reflex system which
> > projected the image down onto a large flat table.
>
> We have one locally in Edinburgh, for example:
>
> http://camera-obscura.co.uk/camera_obscura/camera_obscura.asp
>
> Cheers,
> David

I visited one in Tavira, Portugal last year. The operator/guide was an
english chap.

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Andy Templeman <http://www.templeman.org.uk/>
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