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Camera Obscuras in Africa and Asia
INDIAN OCEAN
Indian Ocean,
Kerguelen Is. |
1874 |
Set up by a German expedition
to follow the transit of Venus across the Sun. |
JAPAN
| Kyoto |
1997 |
At the Nakagawa Photo Gallery
or Museum of Kyoto. Owned by Kuniaki Nakagawa. |
| Okawa, Kochi Province |
1996 |
By Chris Drury. Small lens
projects sky & trees. "Cedar Log Sky Chamber". Also used
as a tea house. |
SOUTH AFRICA
| Pietersburg, Transvaal |
1942 |
At the aerodrome. With fixed
horizontal lens only. For tracking aircraft practicing bomb-runs. |
| Fish Hoek |
c1914 |
Reported in Fish Hoek Magazine
No.2 January 1954. At the foot of Adderley Street. |
| Grahamstown |
1882/1883 |
At The Observatory Museum.
Renovated, ( new mirror) in 1982. Plaster screen. Originally by H.C.Gilpin. |
| Pretoria |
1991 |
At the "Exploratorium"
at Uni. of Pretoria. 158mm f22 lens. Screen 1500mm. Mirror 400 x 300mm. |
| Cape Town |
2000 |
Called the Canon Camera Obscura, at the MTN Sciencentre. With multiple lenses. |
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