Camera Obscura Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
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BladeCarver on 08-Sep-02. Waypoint GC8C05
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Location: Biel/Bienne, canton of Bern, Switzerland.
We found this Camera Obscura in the Swiss city of Biel/Bienne today while we were doing the cache "City of Biel-Bienne" (GCP61G). It is located at the "Museum Neuhaus".
More information about the museum can be found here: http://www.mn-biel.ch (German and French)
Thanks for the cache and happy new year!
Sanne & Kiki
We found this Camera Obscura in the Swiss city of Biel/Bienne today while we were doing the cache "City of Biel-Bienne" (GCP61G). It is located at the "Museum Neuhaus".
More information about the museum can be found here: http://www.mn-biel.ch (German and French)
Thanks for the cache and happy new year!
Sanne & Kiki
This might be the largest Camera Obscura logged to date. I was researching Camera Obscuras in the SF Bay Area when I came across an article about one in the Bay Bridge. It is obviously not accessible to the public but must be quite cool if it works as stated. My daughter and I drove up to Oakland from San Jose today to get a picture of the bridge from the Port of Oakland.
Here are some links I found on the secret Camera Obscura:
From: http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/34/340.html
The Camera Obscura is built into into one of the base-pylons of the SF-Oakland Bay bridge. You stand inside in utter darkness and see an inverted Bayscape. This is just a rivet-hole but it's presumed to have been left deliberately open. One of the most secret monuments of the Bay Area.
From: http://grimsociety.com/roadkill/frisco.html
Bay Bridge and Treasure Island - Connecting San Francisco and Oakland, the Bay Bridge also offers access to Treasure Island. Treasure Island offers many hiking and bicycle trails, a spectacular view of the San Francisco skyline, and is home to a U.S. Naval base. A large concrete stantion of the Bay Bridge near Treasure Island is actually a camera obscura - a large room that has a small opening at one end that serves as a lens, projecting an image on an interior wall. The image projected on the wall here is that, of course, of downtown San Francisco.
From: http://www.foredown.virtualmuseum.info/camera_obscuras/northamerica.asp
San Francisco 1998 Uses rivet-hole in SF-Oakland Bridge to project image of Bay area into dark enclosure.
Thanks for the cache!
Here are some links I found on the secret Camera Obscura:
From: http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/34/340.html
The Camera Obscura is built into into one of the base-pylons of the SF-Oakland Bay bridge. You stand inside in utter darkness and see an inverted Bayscape. This is just a rivet-hole but it's presumed to have been left deliberately open. One of the most secret monuments of the Bay Area.
From: http://grimsociety.com/roadkill/frisco.html
Bay Bridge and Treasure Island - Connecting San Francisco and Oakland, the Bay Bridge also offers access to Treasure Island. Treasure Island offers many hiking and bicycle trails, a spectacular view of the San Francisco skyline, and is home to a U.S. Naval base. A large concrete stantion of the Bay Bridge near Treasure Island is actually a camera obscura - a large room that has a small opening at one end that serves as a lens, projecting an image on an interior wall. The image projected on the wall here is that, of course, of downtown San Francisco.
From: http://www.foredown.virtualmuseum.info/camera_obscuras/northamerica.asp
San Francisco 1998 Uses rivet-hole in SF-Oakland Bridge to project image of Bay area into dark enclosure.
Thanks for the cache!
visited camera obscura at morris arberetum last year so thought this would be easy. when I went to photograph I discovered it had been disasembled two weeks ago. I decided that I would build my own camera. I bought a lens at staples and covered the door to my apartment house with cardboard turning the foyer into camera. see photo. you can see the image in the picture upside down and inverted.
This Camera Obscura is at Happy Valley, on the Great Orme above Llandudno in North Wales. On a good day you can see all of Llandudno town centre and the bay. It was originally built in 1860.
For anyone else looking for a Camera Obsura in North Wales, there is one at Portmerion (If I couldn't find this one, I planned to move on to Portmerion).
TFTC - PhilPamandRob
For anyone else looking for a Camera Obsura in North Wales, there is one at Portmerion (If I couldn't find this one, I planned to move on to Portmerion).
TFTC - PhilPamandRob
This small Camera Obscura is on a viewpoint called "Altonaer Balkon" (Balcony of Altona). It is located above the river Elbe in Altona, a district of Hamburg, Germany.
This Camera Obscura (Camâra Escura) is located in Hospital São Sebastião, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.
This belongs to hospital's Radiology Service where they make radiology films if necessary.
The coordinates are from the closest place with GPS signal.
This belongs to hospital's Radiology Service where they make radiology films if necessary.
The coordinates are from the closest place with GPS signal.
Found this one in Mülheim/Germany.
It´s the biggest one of the world.
Neanderwolf und die Meute
It´s the biggest one of the world.
Neanderwolf und die Meute
Something a little different, logged with prior approval from the cache owner. This is a camera obscura art scuplture, located at the VTA Milpitas station in Milpitas, California.
Created by Ellen Sollod, ""Camera Obscura" replicates a darkened room and is a metaphor for our experience of progress: the world often feels upside down as we encounter new things. By placing one's eye on the sculptures eyepiece, light is obscured. The viewer observes the scene ahead, but muted and upside down. The image viewed through the eyepiece changes as traffic passes, as the train enters the station, and as the mountains turn from green to brown. This piece allows the viewer to slow down to experience the day with a different perspective." The budget for this sculpture and another here ran a bit over $100,000.
Created by Ellen Sollod, ""Camera Obscura" replicates a darkened room and is a metaphor for our experience of progress: the world often feels upside down as we encounter new things. By placing one's eye on the sculptures eyepiece, light is obscured. The viewer observes the scene ahead, but muted and upside down. The image viewed through the eyepiece changes as traffic passes, as the train enters the station, and as the mountains turn from green to brown. This piece allows the viewer to slow down to experience the day with a different perspective." The budget for this sculpture and another here ran a bit over $100,000.
This is the Douglas bay Camera Obscura. It gas recently been reopened after a long shutdown period of refurbishment by the Isle of Man Government
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/towns/douglas/cobscura.htm
http://www.manxscenes.com/2005/May/cam_obs.htm
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/towns/douglas/cobscura.htm
http://www.manxscenes.com/2005/May/cam_obs.htm
We found this one on Eastbourne Pier, West Sussex on the south coast of England.
Living fairly near and having been on the pier many times, we didn't even know it was there! The web site http://www.eastbournepier.com/camera.php explains that it has been out of action for a while but is now restored. Current work (Autumn 2005) going on in the area has again put it out of bounds however.
TFTC
Trevor and Rosemary
Living fairly near and having been on the pier many times, we didn't even know it was there! The web site http://www.eastbournepier.com/camera.php explains that it has been out of action for a while but is now restored. Current work (Autumn 2005) going on in the area has again put it out of bounds however.
TFTC
Trevor and Rosemary
I found this Camera Obscura in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary), Czech Republic.
Thank you for this cache! Ferda
Thank you for this cache! Ferda
So I've been looking for Camera Obscura for a long time now and figured I would have to get lucky to actually find one. Well, I found one... lets see if my log will say since I couldn't get a picture of the sign.
High above Central Park in Manhattan NY there lives a camera obscura. It's located on the 17th floor at 21 E. 90th street. Charles Schwartz build this camera in a room in his apartment.
The camera is housed in a specially designed room that is also an office and workroom. It is covered with copper for lightness and when the camera obscura is in use blackout shutters cover the windows. The optics are housed in a copper turret on the roof and project through a hole in the ceiling onto a 42 inch round white table. At the side of the table is a bank of buttons that control the shutters, the tilt of the mirror and rotation of the turret. We learned that it is equipped with an 8-inch lens with a 12 1/2 foot focal length and a 12-inch mirror and brings in a 15-degree slice of the world outside. Sharp focus if possible from infinity to 400 feet. The optics were designed and built by George Keene of California.
For more on Charles Schwartz, [url=http://www.cs-photo.com/obscura/obscura.php]click here[/url]
High above Central Park in Manhattan NY there lives a camera obscura. It's located on the 17th floor at 21 E. 90th street. Charles Schwartz build this camera in a room in his apartment.
The camera is housed in a specially designed room that is also an office and workroom. It is covered with copper for lightness and when the camera obscura is in use blackout shutters cover the windows. The optics are housed in a copper turret on the roof and project through a hole in the ceiling onto a 42 inch round white table. At the side of the table is a bank of buttons that control the shutters, the tilt of the mirror and rotation of the turret. We learned that it is equipped with an 8-inch lens with a 12 1/2 foot focal length and a 12-inch mirror and brings in a 15-degree slice of the world outside. Sharp focus if possible from infinity to 400 feet. The optics were designed and built by George Keene of California.
For more on Charles Schwartz, [url=http://www.cs-photo.com/obscura/obscura.php]click here[/url]
In my homecity where i live up to my 19 year of live, we have such a camera obscura. The history you can read in the internet
http://www.hainichen.de/
Am 23. Juni 1883 fand die Einweihung der von einem Mitglied des Hainichener Verschönerungsvereins gestifteten Camera obscura (lat. dunkle Kammer) auf dem Rahmenberg statt. Das einfache kleine Holzhäuschen zu ebener Erde wurde 1906 erhöht und vom alten Standort einige Meter versetzt. Diese technische Rarität wurde 1985 für gute Sichtverhältnisse unterbaut und erhielt ihr heutiges Aussehen
Funktionsweise: Das auf einem Rundturm aufsitzende Holzhäuschen enthält eine Aufnahme- und Wiedergabeoptik. Ein Spiegel, der sich in einem drehbaren Kasten auf der Dachspitze befindet, überträgt Bildausschnitte aus der Umgebung durch ein Rohr und eine Linse in den verdunkelten Raum. Hier kann man ein bewegtes Bild der Landschaft mit realistischen Farben auf einem drehbaren Tisch betrachten.
Die Camera obscura wird gefördert durch den "Kulturraum Mittelsachsen".
Öffnungszeiten:
Mai bis Oktober
Montag - Mittwoch geschlossen
Donnerstag - Sonnabend 13.00 - 16.00 Uhr
Sonntag 10.00 - 12.00 Uhr und 13.00 - 16.00 Uhr
Sonderöffnungszeiten nach Vereinbarung möglich,
Tel.: 037207 / 600
Sorry i forgot to make a picture with the GPS an the camera obscura, but i have normal fotos.
[This entry was edited by pepenhund on Friday, September 16, 2005 at 8:52:04 AM.]
This rather unique mobile camera obscura is located at the University of British Columbia, BC, Canada.
I thought it was very interesting and will try to actually visit the inside. But other people didin't seem to like it much see excerpted review below
"A camera obscura is a fancy term for a pinhole camera, a precursor to the modern camera. Like a human iris, it takes an image of the world and projects it reversed and upside down. The device was used in the Renaissance as a drawing aid and a way of transposing objective visual reality onto the two-dimensional surface of a canvas or sheet of paper. Why Graham has decided to stick one on the back of a 19th century landau carriage isn’t initially clear. But he’s put a clue on the rear of the pavilion in the form of a wall text:
A moving, camera obscura image in the interior of a darkened, itinerant, 19th century horse-drawn carriage would have constituted a pre-figuration of the cinema, had such a thing existed. To realize this "philosophical toy" in a post-cinema age is to fabricate a kind of time machine in which the spectators, looking forward, may see backwards and upside-down, that which is forever receding behind them.
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"At least, that’s what I think he means. Instead of telling us what his carriage is doing, shouldn’t Graham be showing us? What he seems to have created is a kind of contradiction: an immobile vehicle about mobility (both spatial and temporal). Entering the carriage, you sit and watch the image of the upside-down sequoia tree in the darkened cab, but it doesn’t (as Graham hopes) conjure up the “pre-cinematic†moment where the viewer becomes film. It doesn’t take you anywhere. You sit and watch the projection wondering how long politeness requires you to wait, before you get out and let the Belkin gallery staff member get back to his or her job. The carriage itself is beautiful, but its gloss and high finish are a ruse, a smoke screen to give the work an aesthetic it hasn’t earned. It’s appropriated aestheticism - a hallmark of postmodern art-laziness."
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" Undoubtedly Millennium Time Machine will be earnestly discussed in academic circles. A fetish for nostalgia, combined with the work’s pedagogical patina (its intellectual gloss), will convince some that this is genuine highbrow art. It is perhaps apt that the carriage is from the 19th century, because with his odd, arcane obsessions, Rodney Graham seems more of an artist from a hundred years ago instead of today. The work of the obsessive has its own minor fascination, but as a work of art, Millennium Time Machine doesn’t feel the slightest bit pertinent to the messy, lived experience of today. If Rodney Graham’s intention was to encapsulate the obscurity and irrelevance of most contemporary art practice and criticism, he may just have created a masterpiece -- his sculpture is an academic jewelry box, a monument to inaccessibility."
© Adrian Livesley 2003. A version of this essay appeared in the Summer 2003 issue of Artichoke Magazine.
[This entry was edited by MadRaven on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 12:22:27 PM.]
[This entry was edited by MadRaven on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 12:24:19 PM.]
I thought it was very interesting and will try to actually visit the inside. But other people didin't seem to like it much see excerpted review below
"A camera obscura is a fancy term for a pinhole camera, a precursor to the modern camera. Like a human iris, it takes an image of the world and projects it reversed and upside down. The device was used in the Renaissance as a drawing aid and a way of transposing objective visual reality onto the two-dimensional surface of a canvas or sheet of paper. Why Graham has decided to stick one on the back of a 19th century landau carriage isn’t initially clear. But he’s put a clue on the rear of the pavilion in the form of a wall text:
A moving, camera obscura image in the interior of a darkened, itinerant, 19th century horse-drawn carriage would have constituted a pre-figuration of the cinema, had such a thing existed. To realize this "philosophical toy" in a post-cinema age is to fabricate a kind of time machine in which the spectators, looking forward, may see backwards and upside-down, that which is forever receding behind them.
........
"At least, that’s what I think he means. Instead of telling us what his carriage is doing, shouldn’t Graham be showing us? What he seems to have created is a kind of contradiction: an immobile vehicle about mobility (both spatial and temporal). Entering the carriage, you sit and watch the image of the upside-down sequoia tree in the darkened cab, but it doesn’t (as Graham hopes) conjure up the “pre-cinematic†moment where the viewer becomes film. It doesn’t take you anywhere. You sit and watch the projection wondering how long politeness requires you to wait, before you get out and let the Belkin gallery staff member get back to his or her job. The carriage itself is beautiful, but its gloss and high finish are a ruse, a smoke screen to give the work an aesthetic it hasn’t earned. It’s appropriated aestheticism - a hallmark of postmodern art-laziness."
....
" Undoubtedly Millennium Time Machine will be earnestly discussed in academic circles. A fetish for nostalgia, combined with the work’s pedagogical patina (its intellectual gloss), will convince some that this is genuine highbrow art. It is perhaps apt that the carriage is from the 19th century, because with his odd, arcane obsessions, Rodney Graham seems more of an artist from a hundred years ago instead of today. The work of the obsessive has its own minor fascination, but as a work of art, Millennium Time Machine doesn’t feel the slightest bit pertinent to the messy, lived experience of today. If Rodney Graham’s intention was to encapsulate the obscurity and irrelevance of most contemporary art practice and criticism, he may just have created a masterpiece -- his sculpture is an academic jewelry box, a monument to inaccessibility."
© Adrian Livesley 2003. A version of this essay appeared in the Summer 2003 issue of Artichoke Magazine.
[This entry was edited by MadRaven on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 12:22:27 PM.]
[This entry was edited by MadRaven on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 12:24:19 PM.]
Found this Camera Obscura whilst on holiday. A very busy location and I'm sure other people thought we were taking a picture of them! Including the 'live' statue.
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perth pathfinders
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perth pathfinders
Where else would one hope to find a Camera Obscura than at a Photographic Museum. There is a fine example at the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock in Wiltshire. Photographs show the museum and abbey entrance, also the window in the converted barn window/slit where the obscura is located. Super visit, also visited the abbey after.
Was at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois where you could observe the 17th century Dutch perspective techniques through a camera obscura. They are also having an exhibition there from June 4 - Oct 16, 2005 of actual pictures from a camera obscura. The exhibition is called, "A Room With a View". Abelardo Morell a renowned camera obscura photographer has about 25 pictures featured. It was a beautiful day and the Lake Michigan shoreline was packed with people and sailboats. There were several war protesters in front of the Art Institute that were attracting horn blasts from passing motorists. Thanks for the cache.
This camera obscura is at the University of Pretoria, in South Africa, where I'm currently studying. I decided to take these pictures because you can see the lens of the camera obscura quite nicely.
Found this Camera Obscura at the National Museum in Canberra, ACT Australia. It is simply a room with a hole in one side and a door in the other. However, it worked surprisingly well. Of course, when I took a picture on the inside, the picture on the opaque panel wasn't visible.
