Inside the Camera Obscura - San Francisco
The San Francisco Camera Obscura projects an image onto a horizontal viewing table via a reflected image from a viewpoint at the top of the building. A metal hood in the cupola at the top of the building slowly rotates, making a full revolution in about six minutes, allowing for a 360º view around the building.
Light enters the building via an angled mirror in the metal hood. It then passed through a lens with a 150 in. (381 cm) focal length and is projected onto a parabolic white table in a black room.
When the fourth Cliff House opened in 1937, the owner was approached by businessman Floyd Jennings with the idea of adding a camera obscura to the cliffs behind the restaurant. It was installed on the site in 1946 and has been in continuous operation since then.
The Camera Obscura was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 for its engineering significance. While the exterior of the building was extensively modified in 1957 to appear as a giant camera, the internal workings of the camera obscura, the basis of its placement on the Register, remained unchanged.
Inside the camara obscura at the Cliff House (San Francisco)
This is what you see inside the camara obscura at the famous Cliff House in San Francisco. As the mirror on top of the room rotates, you get to see the projection of the whole panorama around you. The image on the table rotates according to the direction.
This white table where the image is projected on is concave.
My Life in San Francisco (1989) pt 5
View from my roof, the BugCam, drive down Polk St. to the beach. (2:39) Cliff House at Seal Rock, ruins of Sutro bath house. (5:21) California St.: Grace Cathedral (where Courtney Cox was married), Flood Mansion, Fairmont & Mark Hopkins hotels, Powell Street.
Giant Camera Obscura
The Giant Camera Obscura at the Cliff House in Ocean Beach San Francisco.
Camera Obscura
The Camera Obscura at Ocean Beach, San Francisco California
Cliff House Giant Camera Obscura
Video of the Giant Camera Obscura that is on the Cliff house at Ocean Beach San Francisco. Video Shot January 23 2011.
Ever Seen The Camera Obscura in Santa Monica, California?
The mechanism in the Santa Monica Camera Obscura came from a turn of the century camera obscura next to the pier and was installed in the Senior Recreation Center in 1955.
Learn more about the Santa Monica Camera Obscura on this lovely blog:
Camera obscura, also referred to as pinhole image, is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen (or for instance a wall) is projected through a small hole in that screen as a reversed and inverted image on a surface opposite to the opening. The surroundings of the projected image have to be relatively dark for the image to be clear, so many historical camera obscura experiments were performed in dark rooms.
The camera obscura box was developed further into the photographic camera in the first half of the 19th century when camera obscura boxes were used to expose light-sensitive materials to the projected image.
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San Francisco: Sausalito
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Camera Obscura at Koo's Cafe 1 of 4
Camera Obscura at Koo's Cafe in Santa Ana, CA 3/3/2000
Ocean Beach SF in 4K - San Francisco, California
Ocean Beach SF (4K video) in San Francisco, California. See the surf and waves in 4K, and hear the sounds of Ocean Beach SF in San Francisco in this video!
Also in this video are shots of the Cliff House restaurant in Ocean Beach SF, as well as the Giant Camera building, which holds the Camera Obscura and Holograph Gallery. (See giantcamera.com for more info.)
San Francisco, CA.
The Cliff House is a restaurant on Point Lobos Avenue perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It has had five major incarnations since its beginnings in 1858. It now overlooks the site of the former Sutro Baths and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the National Park Service. On the terrace of the Cliff House is a room-sized camera obscura.
Camera Obscura - Tears For Affairs - Live @ SOhO - 6-16-13
Camera Obscura perform Tears For Affairs, at SOhO in Santa Barbara, CA, on June 17, 2013
Rickshaw Obscura Exploratorium
Inside the Rickshaw Obscura at San Francisco Exploratorium
Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA.
Cliff house restaurant SF
Famous vista point
Camera Obscura at Koo's Cafe 4 of 4
Camera Obscura at Koo's Cafe in Santa Ana, CA 3/3/2000
Camera Obscura - Santa Monica, CA
This is a video I shot of what you see when you turn the ship's wheel on the Camera Obscura in Santa Monica CA. It is hard to capture how cool it is to see in person...
Places to see in ( San Francisco - USA ) Cliff House
Places to see in ( San Francisco - USA ) Cliff House
The Cliff House is a restaurant on Point Lobos Avenue perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It has had five major incarnations since its beginnings in 1858. It now overlooks the site of the former Sutro Baths and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the National Park Service. On the terrace of the Cliff House is a room-sized camera obscura.
Cliff House has had five major incarnations since its beginnings in 1858. That year, Samuel Brannan, a prosperous ex-Mormon elder from Maine, bought for $1,500 the lumber salvaged from a ship that foundered on the basalt cliffs below. With this material he built the first Cliff House.
The second Cliff House was built in 1863, and leased to Captain Junius G. Foster. It was a long trek from the city and hosted mostly horseback riders, small game hunters or picnickers on day outings. With the opening of the Point Lobos toll road a year later, the Cliff House became successful with the Carriage trade for Sunday travel. Later the builders of the toll road constructed a two-mile speedway beside it where well-to-do San Franciscans raced their horses along the way.
On weekends, there was little room at the Cliff House hitching racks for tethering the horses for the thousands of rigs. Soon, omnibus, railways and streetcar lines made it to near Lone Mountain where passengers transferred to stagecoach lines to the beach. The growth of Golden Gate Park attracted beach travellers, in search of meals and a look at the sea lions sunning themselves on Seal Rocks just off the cliffs, to visit the area.
When the Cliff House became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1977, the National Park Service contracted with Dan and Mary Hountalas as official concessionaires of the property. The NPS renewed its contract with the Hountalas family, under the name Peanut Wagon, in 1998. Peanut Wagon continues to manage Cliff House operations and worked with the Park Service for the extensive site restoration that was completed in 2004.
The Cliff House features two restaurants, the casual dining Bistro Restaurant and the more formal Sutro's. Additionally, the Terrace Room serves a Sunday Brunch buffet. There is a gift shop in the building, and the historic camera obscura is on a deck overlooking the ocean.
( San Francisco - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting San Francisco . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in San Francisco - USA
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Sutro Heights Park in San Francisco Part 1
Giant Camera Obscura
Cliff House Camera Obscura