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Article: The magic of the great camera obscura.
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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At Lands End, a chance to see the world anew
It sits at San Francisco's northwestern edge, where Lands End splinters into the Pacific. "Giant Camera," the sign reads. The building does indeed take the form of a box camera your grandmother might have used. It is painted a pale, Necco-wafer yellow.
Someone has tacked up fliers near the entrance: "Dramatic Re-Creation of Leonardo da Vinci's Original Camera Obscura! Well worth a buck!" You pay your buck, you walk inside. So absolute is the darkness, you feel you have stepped into your own coffin. This feeling does not last. There is the world you left behind - Lands End, Seal Rocks, the cold Pacific - revolving ...